“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I love drawing. It's a passion of mine, and I'm a creative person. I always have my sketch book with me. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things… — Erin Blakemore Copy Share Image
You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language… This plan would… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Bastian looked at the book. 'I wonder,' he said to himself, 'what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s. — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
“I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the… — Peggy Randall-Martin Copy Share Image
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians… — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul… — Luiz Bolognesi Copy Share Image
specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you. — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
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“... death does not bring the life of a man to an end; it only opens the door to a higher form… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! — Claudia Christian Copy Share Image
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If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
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