I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT! — John Piper Copy Share Image
“If I considered other people's mediocre standards a sufficient metric by which to measure my own accomplishments, I'd have never amounted to… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I originally went to Edinburgh for Latin, which I love and the literature is incredible, but then I suddenly realised that languages… — Lady Amelia Windsor Copy Share Image
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“Do you know my absolute favorite story about the author of The Age of Innocence ? It’s that she did all of… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful. — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed… — William Haizlett Copy Share Image
“You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.” — Jeremy Young Copy Share Image
Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time. — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
