Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Only bad books have good endings.if a book is any good, its ending is always bad_because byou don't want the book to… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
“There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say,… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language. — John Scott Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.” — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I carry this little book around everywhere. It's like my journal, but also like ideas and drawings and everything. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.” — Patricia Finney Copy Share Image
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Drench yourself in words unspoken, live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins.” — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
“Always write with passion; with your mind and with your heart. Never forget who you are writing for, but don’t write just… — Monty Marsden Copy Share Image
Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Great books inspire great minds. Great minds master many disciplines. The most difficult discipline to master is self discipline.” — James Brown Copy Share Image
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting… — Cass Canfield Copy Share Image
You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments. — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly… — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
“There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its… — Astrid Yrigollen Copy Share Image
What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow. — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Finally, Everybody Hates Chris is on, isn't that right Alice?? Plus, I dont know why they say to put author name for… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“...a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
