Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were… — John Scott Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.” — DENNIS SEDDON Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
“In my living room there are two large bookcases, each one eight feet tall, and they have about five hundred books between… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of… — Nancy Birdsall Copy Share Image
“hey its Uberunicorn here, im uploading my accountant for the first time! :D yay! im only uploading the books ive read in… — Robert Muchamore Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did. — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.” — James Jeffrey Roche Copy Share Image
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. — Charice Pempengco Copy Share Image
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have. — Xinran Copy Share Image
Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.' — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Books, I read them for one reason and one reason only so that I can appear more educated than I actually am.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
