In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“it’s really just taking action—whether that’s approaching someone you’re intimidated by or deciding to finally crack a book on a subject you… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“To help me learn how to practice lectio divina, I’ve enlisted two expert sources. Eugene Peterson opens his book on spiritual reading… — Jana Riess Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
“Merry Christmas!' someone shouted. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. 'Merry Christmas!' 'Merry Christmas!' 'C-cookies for ever'body!' Sammy… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it,… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
“There are literally hundreds of other micro-experiences and incredible experiences that help shape the book. But what really drove it home for… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“Most people weren’t aware that books chose us, at the time when we needed them most.” — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience? — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
After many years of studying my Geography book I finally know by heart that Australia is on page 23. — Eliza Brittany Lawn Copy Share Image
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public. — Audrey Strauss Copy Share Image
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from… — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
“No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book.” (p. 105).” — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If there is anything I've learned over the past year. It's Never judge a book by it's cover:) — Rachel C Copy Share Image
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Being from Russia, I respect all of the comic books American people love. We do follow it a lot. — Svetlana Khodchenkova Copy Share Image
“Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those… — richelle e. goodrich Copy Share Image
A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place… — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next… — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading. — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
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