“You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.' — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath'… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in… — Daniel Harms Copy Share Image
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
The handwritten pages make for fun giveaways. If someone reviews one of my books online, like on Amazon or Goodreads, they can… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
“Victorian novels come to us, that is, poised between questions of outer and inner, public and private life; they tend to contrast… — Hilary Schor Copy Share Image
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have. — Xinran Copy Share Image
“Books, I read them for one reason and one reason only so that I can appear more educated than I actually am.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“There are only one or two repeats in the whole book. So that got me thinking polyalphabetic substitution.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?)” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn… — John Donne Copy Share Image
They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private.… — Dyan Cannon Copy Share Image
I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an… — John Green Copy Share Image
I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I'll maybe write a book - I wish people read more. But I don't know about developing and starring in a show… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
“When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing.” — Brian McClellan Copy Share Image
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
