“To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader .” — Emily Winfield Martin Copy Share Image
I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one. — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they… — Immaculee Ilibagiza Copy Share Image
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I would like to apologize to the relatives of the fan who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The literature of Toni Morrison or Jean Tomer - they're the work and images that have stuck with me. The epic banal… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
“These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. T will read the most personal tale you shall ever find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.” — Serina Hartwell Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has read a lot can tell you that the best ideas you take from a certain book often have nothing… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The French government classifies books as an “essential good,” along with electricity, bread, and water.” — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build. — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
I'm a unicorn in the world of journalism; I've stayed in the same mid-sized city, and that staying has allowed me to… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader,… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones… — Jane Pek Copy Share Image
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Children won't just love to read. Children learn what they live, parents are responsible for instilling that in them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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