I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language. — John Scott Copy Share Image
They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?" — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don’t… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of… — Walter Besant Copy Share Image
I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty -… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“...the job of the spiritual memoirist is to read the world like a book. Medieval monks believed the natural world was a… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“If too descriptive, you lose the readers’ ability to interpret. And that’s a vital organ you don’t want to fuck with.” — Jason Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“was boring to think of books as something you should read just because others had, and” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Clevinger is a very bright guy, a Harvard man, who knows everything about literature except how to enjoy it.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
An angel opened the book of life and wrote down my babys birth. And whispered as she closed it Too beautiful for… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“There are essentially two things that will make us wiser: the books we read and the people we meet.” — Charles Jones Copy Share Image
The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“As for workout clothes, Bowerman told readers that proper clothing “may help the spirit,” but added that people shouldn’t get hung up… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
“If I was an author I'd be worried, as I'm a story teller I'll just get drunk and make it up as… — Glenn Scrimshaw Copy Share Image
I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
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