Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or,… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
“Music expresses both in lyrics and in tune something of the orientation of the composer and author as to what the truth… — Robert Godfrey Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“My greatest desire is that the reader will understand that the events involving Israel and Middle East are rushing toward a conclusion.… — John McTernan Copy Share Image
“The best man. You know? He hands you the ring and has to marry the bride if you ran away and so… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“...so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
“vision. The dynamic psychology described in this book largely focuses on the interface of psychology with what Rudolf Otto called the numinous.… — John G. Shobris Copy Share Image
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s The Goal, published in… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“...the materials of genre - specifically the paired genres of horror and the fantastic - in no way require the constrictions of… — Peter Straub (Author Copy Share Image
The cool thing about comic books and prose is that if a reader gets confused on page 8, they can backtrack. With… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness… — Louis Binstock Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“What if, by contrast, you are more a user of intangible assets: say, the Amazon warehouse, using the knowledge of the routing… — Jonathan Haskel Copy Share Image
I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say,… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch,… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
“Then I hear Willard on the sidelines: “Are we supposed to keep pretending they’re actually talking about the book?” “Wait,” Annie responds,… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and… — Kathryn Davis Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“This, I found, was what happened so often to me in Turkey: You’re learning about a country, you have read books, and… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
