“As an author, this is my integrity question: 'If horses could read, would they approve of what I write?” — Joanne Verikios Copy Share Image
Look at the next chapter in your life as a fresh start, just because a book may not have a good beginning… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.' — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
“All the Sacraments, as acts of their invis ible author and chief minister, Jesus Christ, by vir tue of their immanent dignity,… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
“No person or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far to strange for… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Truth does not contain in a single thought, in a single book, in a single religion. — Leeramtan Copy Share Image
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
When I'm not hitting the books or on the court working, I like to help out around my community. — Zion Williamson Copy Share Image
Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible. — Al Jaffee Copy Share Image
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.” — Nichole Chase Copy Share Image
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
