“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“What’s the fastest route to the library in Peachtree City? (Carlos) What? You’ve got an overdue book? (Gabrielle)” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
You may not be a fan of Twitter-fiction. That's okay. There are novels out there for you - big ones. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“- Do you have books? - books on what? books on comets? - anything ... comets, gravity, black holes... - Yeah, I've… — Coherence Copy Share Image
“What I find difficult, when I read, is to encounter other people’s achievements passed off as one’s own. I find it difficult… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“To the right off of west bound Jefferson Avenue there were still neighborhoods that served as the gateway to hell. Where black… — Stephen Mack Jones Copy Share Image
Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever. — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book,… — B.o.B Copy Share Image
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“Some of my problems I solved with my sword. But many others, I solved with books. They might look unassuming, but there… — Linsey Hall Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s got someplace to be. Finding God is not on the schedule. - The sun is also a star” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“In fact, my experiences as I was writing the 3:16 book weren't that different from writing computer books, although I wasn't using… — Donald E. Knuth Copy Share Image
“Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Never read anything that you wouldn't want to read out loud - - to your mother.” — Mary Ellen Edmunds Copy Share Image
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat. — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
“It's not the books by Stephen King that I read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .” — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
