Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address… — James Howe Copy Share Image
Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“If your hero's backstory is more interesting than their present story, you're writing the wrong book.” — Kristen Kieffer Copy Share Image
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.” — Wayde Goodall Copy Share Image
“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting,… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
“I gaped. "You are not seriously that chauvinistic?" "Hmmm..." He stroked his chin dramatically. "Maybe not in real life." Hillbilly again. "But… — Kristin Walker Copy Share Image
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Words are delicate instruments: How to use them so that, after having read the poem, the taste remaining is not of the… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“There is a sort of busy worm, That will the fairest book deform. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet,… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“I write, so that everyone else, can live. The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
A person could change there Profile on face book and put up a different photo, but they still the same person !… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Ruin and Rising' is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
“Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.” — Sofija Copy Share Image
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones'… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Brendan: "You can't find out everything from books, you know." Aidan: "I think I read that once.” — The Secret of Kells Copy Share Image
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
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