I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren't being… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“To find the books end, cross the ancient wood to the mystic isle. Until then, prepare yourself for the coming battle. .… — Michelle Zink Copy Share Image
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“In modeling: He with better looks is more in demand than he who has read better books.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“I began writing my nonfiction memoir to explain why women, "don't just leave." My exciting, narrative-driven memoir aspires to to save others… — Cassi Janzek Copy Share Image
“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,'… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“Arthur felt as though he were being read like a book, and wondered whether this girl would like his story.” — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“Our life is a blank book and we are the authors…. Write and shape your story as much as the mind can… — Jason Calder Copy Share Image
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. — Dorothy Garlock Copy Share Image
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my… — Brian Kilmeade Copy Share Image
“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
“Laurie welcomes ALL Reviews from readers, and will supply an e-book version of the books listed.” — Laurie Bowler Copy Share Image
It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Absolutely No doubt: you are a great Literature, but if you Don't Have Been Any Assumptions About social situation, then have been… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Everybody has a chapter they don't read out loud. Shallow waters are noisy; deep waters are silent” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if you live your life as an open book people will still wonder which pages have secret messages. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.” — Beatrice Colin Copy Share Image
“A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out,… — Yuan Mei Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I grew up a fan of comics and hanging out in local comic book stores, talking to the store manager and seeing… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.” — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
