Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“Megiddo, the hillock where, according to the Book of Revelation, Christ and Satan would wage a climactic duel that would bring about… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“And this book was an attempt to be with these feelings, also to find a place that will allow both to remember… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
“I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I always thought of history of being alive something about real people who were doing things that meant something, and it wasn't… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
“You can’t please all of the readers all of the time; you can’t please even some of the readers all of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Tolkien believed doggedly in the old-fashioned notion that the purpose of philology was to read literature and that literature couldn’t be properly… — Wyatt North Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of… — Dr. SunWolf Copy Share Image
I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
“Asbab-an-nuzul: A body of Islamic literature purporting to detail the circumstances of specific Quranic revelations” — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me! — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.” — Robynn Tolbert Copy Share Image
Ladies at 13, 14, 15, you should be in them books, not at someone's house with your legs open. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30. — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
“The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice.… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
“The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation; the nation that had taken to the Book was rescued not by… — Mark A. Noll Copy Share Image
“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Are you New World or Old?' 'Sounds like a novel by Henry James.' 'Never read him.' 'Don't. But that was his question… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel and everyday is a new page. So if a page is sad next will be happy. So… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
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