The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box,… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“It was that reader that she'd found in Mama's trunk. At the schoolhouse they had McGuffey, good lessons about good boys and… — Pamela Morsi Copy Share Image
“I write my literature as I write my ledger entries-carefully and indifferently. Next to the vast starry sky and the enigma of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There’s something about a bookstore that is so calming. It’s a place where I feel like I belong, like everyone there is… — AnnaLisa Grant Copy Share Image
Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“I don’t recommend emulating the behavior of any of the characters contained within. They’re all quite mad. The truth is, I have… — Lev A.C. Rosen Copy Share Image
You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture.… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“Miss Aubrey, come and have pity on us. We are reading novels and feel our manliness diminishing by the moment. Come restore… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Let's say I was like, "I'm going to write a book this year," which I'm not. Let's just say that was it.… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it,… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“If publishers are here, I've got a feeling they will agree with whatever I say because the publishing houses are packed full… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I love finding out how authors work, because it can either go full Carrie in 'Homeland,' with loads of Post-it Notes and… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
“Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents… — Jay Payleitner Copy Share Image
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“It seems I had personally laid my past to rest and when writing volume two of my book, it reminded me how… — Christian S. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake dear reader, this Depression was deliberately visited upon the world by the corrupt enemy within the halls of power… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“When they arrived at the palace she had a word with Grant, the young footman in charge, who said it was security… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Even sheets felt different at the cottage. On certain days...the sheets were aired out in the sun. I slipped in between two… — Amy Willard Cross Copy Share Image
“A considerable debt is owed to these, and to many other books. The aim, however, with Scotland: The Autobiography, has been to… — Rosemary Goring Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write,… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag's horns, the bookshelves,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us… — David Connis Copy Share Image
“By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly… — Walter B Gibson Copy Share Image
“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
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