When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
“They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I have tried to outline, but all that seems to guarantee is that the book will not much resemble the outline, so… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
My own disposition is to trust the reader. Of course, there's a line between trusting the reader and expecting her to read… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“so also, from the beginning, did God permit man to be swallowed up by the great whale, who was the author of… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“found. However, in my research for this book, I come across the same incident with the same guys only the location is… — Gerald Naekel Copy Share Image
“At the same time, Dad was working on a book arguing the case for phonetic spelling. He called it 'A Ghoti out… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?” I asked as I closed the book’s cover and headed for the door.… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
For my 'Perfect Chemistry' series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them. — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
“This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one… — Chrys Fey Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Myron Mixon. I've read a couple of his books, and I've learned the little bit that I… — Dale Earnhardt Jr Copy Share Image
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight" Sonata. She buries her failure in this, as… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be named Troll Of The Year 2013 by 'The Guardian' - a paper read by people called Theo… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’ve always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“Each of us will make his own shelf of books. The book for me is the book that delights, attracts, soothes, or… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
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