Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea… — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
“History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today.” — Ian Davies Copy Share Image
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
Being lost in books has to be one of the best feelings it's like you can escape reality and live in your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the difference between even the best video game and what's going on in books. Video games can inspire a reaction, but… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
I have never felt at ease in language. I did not grow up among books or among people who read them. I… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“As we already said, authors receive their ideas from somewhere; and in the case of holy scriptures, that somewhere is the mind… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what… — Akiva Goldsman Copy Share Image
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“after supper Laurence would go to sit outside and read to him by the light of a lantern. He had never been… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it's them… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I've always read voraciously since I was a kid and for me, there's no snobbery around books. — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn’t have over the Holy Spirit they did have?” — Kris Vallotton Copy Share Image
“Today she felt especially comforted by the books that climbed the walls. They were a reminder that any knowledge she desired was… — Liv Constantine Copy Share Image
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
The Bible:The more you read it,the more you love it,the more you love it,the more you read it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This status is so good you will read it twice this status is so good you just read it twice. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard. — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image
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