I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
I hold conferences, and the result of that was that the secular community also started picking up my stuff, and pretty soon… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Having read the source material, I had to have drawn from that. As a fan, I wanted to remain true to that… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
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“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may… — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Vi?" Jag's soft voice called from the other room. I'd been soaking so long, the water in the tub was cold. I… — Elana Johnson Copy Share Image
“That’s why the Bible is not a book about going to heaven. The action is here. The life is here. The point… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
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“The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
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Have you ever talked to someone who is well- educated but unhappy? Rich but sad? Talented but depressed? Beautiful but rejected? What… — Reymon Iglesia Copy Share Image
“If we don't save the public schools, we're not going to save very much else." I use this line all the time.… — Bruce Deitrick Price Copy Share Image
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“593 Still (very still), at the heart of “literary culture” is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
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Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“...Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“After listing the vast array of famous composers, artists, and authors who had created works based on Dante’s epic poem, Langdon scanned… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
