Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I know most publishers probably don't let their authors write on Wattpad all the time, but mine are pretty open about it. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You know you're in love when you finally meet the one who will make you put down that book and live your… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I don't need every book to have female creators, I don't care if there are books that appeal mostly to guy readers.… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
When I read it and I realized that Michael Landon, Jr. was the director of it, I thought...this could work out well.… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“E.L. James. Best damn author of our time, if you ask me. She really nailed it with that tampon scene. Pure enlightenment.” — Christina Elle Copy Share Image
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book. — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book that's an attack on gay people. It's not a book written to attack gay people. — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think… — Katie Taylor Copy Share Image
“Author’s note: what is “close reading? The short answer: without context. Before” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. — John Waters Copy Share Image
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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. — David Amram Copy Share Image
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The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
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