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
“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 certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“Yet today, from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I used to think that Genesis 1–2 was all about evolution versus creation. I read lots of books, watched lots of DVDs,… — David P. Murray Copy Share Image
I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
I like messy people; people who dont fit in a box or stay between the lines, but whos integrity is greater than… — Jim Wern 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
“There are essentially two things that will make us wiser: the books we read and the people we meet.” — Charles Jones 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
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
“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
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 personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. — Helene Hanff 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 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
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“A Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman says, “The brain is a good stagehand. It gets on with its work… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Girl in the White Dress is my book. It is currently linked to another author's profile. So if you have read the… — Nikki Walker Copy Share Image
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
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