I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. Most likely you will… — The Pocket University - Volume XXIII Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own… — Ross King Copy Share Image
Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
“I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I take time with each person and try to remember them, especially if they're a repeater from another event. I know a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Wolgast recalled when he’d come down here with his friends to buy candy and comic books. Back then, a spinning wire rack… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us.… — Douglas Davis Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and… — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
“These are lines from my asteroid-impact novel, Regolith: Just because there are no laws against stupidity doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be punished.… — Brent Reilly Copy Share Image
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I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“The physician had asked the patient to read aloud a paragraph from the statutes of Trinity College, Dublin. ‘It shall be in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
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For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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