An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in… — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
“book for career women in the late 1970s included a chapter on “What If They Call You a Castrating Bitch” — Leslie Berlin Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
“I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I love books. I love that moment when I open one and sink into it. I can escape from the world, into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just as from dust is evolved the man, from the deeds which he does is evolved the higher man.” — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
“Aubrey became a reader early so she wouldn’t feel alone in her apartment at night.” — Michele Campbell Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I spied a copy of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey on the coffee table. “Haley, are you seriously reading that crap?”… — T.B. Markinson Copy Share Image
Do I think that, when we're teaching a book at school, should we go through a myriad list of trigger warnings? No.… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.” — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." ―Salman Rushdie” — Jim Denney Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write. — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. — Alex Winter Copy Share Image
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
“He that reads, be it on yon Kindle or on yon book made from pulp, is he who shall not be called… — Lane Smith Copy Share Image
When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
