Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism doesn't fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“There was the union of his soul with Gloria's, whose radiant fire and freshness was the living material of which the dead… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something. — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books. — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day” — Ashley Poston Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed. You spend all this time… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
“Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Warning: This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house. — Charles Fletcher Lummis Copy Share Image
“I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like . . . I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He closed his grade book and asked hopefully, "What inspired you? Was it Hawthorne?" I stared at him. He had to be… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
“an oft-cited 2010 study on self-esteem, its authors found that college students would rather receive praise than have sex. A” — David Zweig Copy Share Image
Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading,… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books. — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
“she pulled herself out of depression by escaping into the other worlds books offered.” — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Today ,two guys in my math class saw my scars. My sleeve rolled up when I took the book. I think they… — Shmoopy Copy Share Image
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“In its published form, this book is being read, I assume, in the first years of 2000 A.D. (1935 plus eighty or… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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