“Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe… — Fred Chappell Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“I’d always assumed I wouldn’t get serious with a man for years yet, much less fall in love with one. Damn it.… — Gina L. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“When asked if he had a special feeling for books, critic-turned-filmmaker Francois Truffaut answered, "No. I love them and films equally, but… — Alexis Krasilovsky Copy Share Image
“Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to "impute" - to understand that people do judge a book by its cover -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“381 On the question of being understandable.— One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most of my readers think I'm obsessed with time management, but they haven't seen the other - much more legitimate, much more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and love the questions themselves like locked rooms or books that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“I just make the best book that I can and try to not worry about audience or if it will sell. The… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books I’ve ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this… — Joe Loya Copy Share Image
“I find it sad that more Christian literature does not address miracles, and the possibility of demons in our midst. Jesus performed… — D.L. Koontz Copy Share Image
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without… — Ken Pugh Copy Share Image
I was a terrible reporter. The only advantage was I made all my mistakes in a place and at a time where… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“look, and I’m sure you’ll be amazed at the wealth of great books—usually there are several hundred freebies in virtually every category… — Steve Weber Copy Share Image
I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Once you know a habit exists, you have the responsibility to change it . . . others have done so . .… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
“It's the same with books, you see mounds of them in bookshops and you want to read them all, or at least… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I… — LaMarr Woodley Copy Share Image
We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often… — Gary Frank Copy Share Image
There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible.… — Frank Conroy Copy Share Image
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