She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“My fortune read, It’s never too late to become what one could have been.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
“To be a leader you must be a reader. Read, lead, succeed." Cynthia Brian” — Cynthia Brian Copy Share Image
I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials. — Clarke Peters Copy Share Image
“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can’t work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“This isn't tolerable for the democracy in the increasing technological world. The most significant example is climate change, it turns out, for… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The Vedic literatures are the laws of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One cannot violate the injunctions given in the Vedic literatures… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine? Fourteen-hundred-year-old views of history determining how neighbors interacted in the twentieth century? No. You can't. Because history here is… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
