As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
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My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
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Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to… — Lil B Copy Share Image
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget… — Seldon Edwards Copy Share Image
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake… During… — William Rathje Copy Share Image
You see one scene shot 25 times in one day, which is totally fascinating, but while you're watching it, you're remembering, 'This… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime… — Peter James Copy Share Image
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Elephant and Piggie have a very large input. They have a distinct aesthetic taste. They like books that are philosophical. They like… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
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My questions did surprise some people. Others didn't bat an eye. That happens with all my books - I'll read them in… — Laurie Keller Copy Share Image
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
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It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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I won't call 'Cabin' an anti-home invasion story, because that's not exactly true, but the home-invasion subgenre is one I generally don't… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
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So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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