Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I read some books, and I thought, 'This is better than sliced bread!' and a month later, I couldn't remember thinking about… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Being a reader is how I choose to spend my life, every aspect of it, inside and outside of the classroom. I… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“I wanted only to offer it to you plain and bare, unadorned by a prologue or the endless catalogue of sonnets, epigrams… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“when im really into a movel i'm seeing the world differntly during that time- not just for the hour or so in… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success,… — Jordan Belfort Copy Share Image
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It had been hard for months. Sleep would curl slowly around him while he was reading a book, sleep would trick him… — Catherine O'Flynn Copy Share Image
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles… — Rebecca McKinsey Copy Share Image
“From the book Fay-nights - Rule Four: There are no different cultures, only ways yet to be learnt: There are no different… — Miggy J. Noble Copy Share Image
One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
