The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
“That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is. — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple… — K. Lamb Copy Share Image
I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. “People… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know. — William Sleator Copy Share Image
“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current.… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
“My imagination lives and breathes between the pages" – Jaime Guerard, author of The Awaken Series” — Jaime Guerard Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I personally love the colour pink. But the gender divide over toys and books is surely worth taking… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made replica of Shakespeare's dick.” — Eliza Gubbins Copy Share Image
“Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to… — Jean Douchet Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The scent of book leather and lemons enveloped him, and his head went light. Books and clean woman. Had God ever divined… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn’t “Is this a good book?” but "Is this really the story… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
“I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or… — Kathryn Albright Copy Share Image
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn” — Herbert Gerjuoy Copy Share Image
“This book focuses on ways to create innate health and resilience as a key to resolving anxiety in everyday life” — Henry Emmons Copy Share Image
“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book, but Klaus had no time to be sad.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better. — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
