“The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.” — John Banville Copy Share Image
If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution.… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
“Thinking about her is like reading a book with the last couple chapters missing.” — Mr. Joshua Shaw Copy Share Image
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the… — Nas Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, “The most common way people give up their power is… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“yes, books are like flypapers. Memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“To all my readers. I don't need my daughter's okay to do anything. I was a writer before she was my daughter.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
“The post-Biblical literature contains many Greek loan-words. On the Hasmonaean coins, Greek is found along with Hebrew legends, while on the Herodian… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“This book [The Decameron] is a reminder that the storyteller doesn't have a monopoly on the exercise of the imagination; it's based… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.” — Harold Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks. — Paul Wahlberg Copy Share Image
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Grabbed my duffel, my toothbrush, and a signed copy of my favorite book. Just the essentials.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Books are better friends than people at times. They do not threaten you, unless that feeling means you're anticipating the next event. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
“...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws. — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise. — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I'm working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making 'Make it Out Alive' is… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about. There was… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
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