Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
“SOME OF THE WOMEN YOU WILL MEET on these pages, you will already know. Some you’ll know by name, and others, including… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“But then again, that's what the Book of Job was about to her, a cautionary tale about wanting there to be a… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The whole of Revelation could be regarded as a vision of the fulfilment of the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer:… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“But what if the Bible was not God’s word? What if it was just a collection of books and letters written by… — Steve McRoberts Copy Share Image
My interest in self-help began when I was a child in the Seventies. My mum had a book she would consult regularly:… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I've read autobiographies from Per Mertesacker, Jaap Stam, Sol Campbell, John Terry... you name them, I've read them. It helps me improve… — Matthijs de Ligt Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down… — Stella Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their… — Jef I Richards Copy Share Image
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“It is hard for me to believe that Miss Groby ever saw any work of literature from far enough away to know… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“You know, for someone who holds a position of legal authority as high as yours, you sure do like to throw away… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
The two mistakes that come to mind are people who introduce a flood of characters in the first few pages. Where the… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I… — H.P Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You… — Mary Wells Lawrence Copy Share Image
Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr.… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
