“Didn't they like you? Didn't they, like you, need a heart that was a book with no last page? Turn the leaves.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it-- — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“What you read when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never… — Colin Thompson Copy Share Image
When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“It's not that there are no challenges to becoming a vegetarian or vegan, but in the media, including authors of popular books… — Sunaura Taylor Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Do you want to become immortal? Do you want to live forever? Click here to discover how to become immortal now! Author,… — Theimmortalitysecret Copy Share Image
Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted.” — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way. — M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Book knowledge takes action based on reasons; common sense takes action based on the reason from the reasons!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“The poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing... — David Weigel Copy Share Image
“There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow,… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Today I'd like to sit and read Forget I have a job I need Ignore the things I have to do And… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. — Rhoda Koenig Copy Share Image
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't” — Emma Iadanza Copy Share Image
It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“To find the best authors,” he boasted, “is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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