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
“There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.” — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
[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
“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“A lady sent me an email recently advising me to change my environment. I guess she read through the lines of my… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
Frequently, an author gets "orphaned" at a publisher. What this means is that an editor buys their book, then ends up getting… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“I had gone to graduate school because I loved literature, but in graduate school you were not supposed to study literature. You… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for… — Betsy Hearne 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
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
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
“To find the best authors,” he boasted, “is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of… — Paula D'Arcy 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
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
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
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
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14… — Avi Copy Share Image
“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Most campers weren’t given a choice. Camp Green Lake… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone. — John Muir Copy Share Image
[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.” — George will Copy Share Image
I actually started my YouTube channel by accident! I was growing a fan base without even knowing it, and it's all in… — GloZell Copy Share Image
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“god be thanked for books. they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
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