“For Calvin, to accept compromise when Scripture has spoken is to affront the divine majesty of the Author. What” — Burk Parsons Copy Share Image
That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual. — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on… — Dick Vermeil Copy Share Image
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today's… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, psychologist Barry Schwartz makes the case that when one is… — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
“I want to introduce you to Jay, a 'bus-conductor and an idealist. She is not the heroine, but the most constantly apparent… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that in books this sort of stalemate never seems to occur; the authors are so anxious to move their… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE, Is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the rest of the book is prose; — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Customer: I'm looking for a book for my son. He's six. Bookseller: How about this one - it's about- Customer: Yeah, whatever,… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs,… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well. — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
“If nothing else, books are conversations from beyond the grave. Am I anything at all, Reader, besides this manuscript you hold?” — Daniel Kraus Copy Share Image
“Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American. — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“Man, you should write a book.’ ‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?” — Stephanie Wood Copy Share Image
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it. — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
