Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight'… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“When I hear a critic speaking of an author’s sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper. — Rachael Bermingham Copy Share Image
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
There's nothing sacred about the book you've written. The Bible says there's safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Bible says in the Book of James when these things (disappointment ) happens know that you have a savior to keep… — Book Of James Copy Share Image
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that… — James Payn Copy Share Image
I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
British cookbook author Elizabeth David led the most adventurous life but is widely credited with bringing to the fore the importance of… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader. — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. — David Walliams Copy Share Image
“Again, the opportunity has come to start off with our best. Make sure all the 365 pages of your book are worth… — Kaushal Yadav Copy Share Image
Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer. — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I am the author of my own life, unfortunately I am writing in oen and cant erase my mistakes. — Richie Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
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