I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise.” — Kiki Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Nerd Girl Problem #486 Being asked why you're reading a YA book when you're over 25” — pintrest Copy Share Image
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Across the table sat my eight-year-old daughter. Adjacent to her sat a man she had never seen before, with Gothic lettering inscribed… — Shannan Martin Copy Share Image
“Mesopotamian literature is concerned about the jurisdiction of the various gods in the cosmos with humankind at the bottom of the heap,… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“The invention of “electronic ink” is just around the corner. This invention will enable the use of flexible paper-like devices to display… — Scott Shay Copy Share Image
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright… — Christopher Hopper Copy Share Image
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
“Books are what you love. They are what you know. It's obviously your passion. I didn't want you to lose that. You've… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the… — Jake Abel Copy Share Image
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s… — Mateus Ward Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well-known way to 'juice' an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
“On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn” — Patty Wiseman Copy Share Image
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend. — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light. — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you. — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, relatively few of my correspondents were of the variety familiar to most authors, the users of block capitals and red ink.” — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
