Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The book is not completely written until someone else has read it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indies are doing well because of their willingness to experiment, their willingness to share data and lessons with other writers, and their… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
