Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“If a plot is a novel's skeleton, and characters are the muscle, then theme is its soul.” — Janice Hardy Copy Share Image
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of papers and ink and glue - you sell… — Christopher Morlay Copy Share Image
My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“different genres. To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion… — Dale Mayer Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“So, reader, should you ever find yourself writing about the world, take care not to nibble at the many tempting symbols she… — John Barth Copy Share Image
...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas,… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
After my first book, I figured that since it was successful, I wanted to continue things better. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera. — William Klein Copy Share Image
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I love my characters like family and cannot wait to share more of their story with readers. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
As a parent I know how challenging it can be to identify the right books and how rewarding it can be when… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“You can read a lot about a person by their features and what they do with them. But, getting to know someone,… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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