“If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions… — Shawnda Currie Copy Share Image
I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
“A favored bit from "A Legend of Good Men" "My mother and I each had our routines. She taught high school, took… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“Look at me Ethan. Am I Dark, or am I Light?' I looked at her, and I knew what she was. The… — Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Inspiration is God superintending human authors so that using their own individual personalities, experiences, thought processes and vocabulary they composed and recorded… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
“It was written by a doctor, but I've no idea whether it was accurate: the author claimed that blacking out wasn't simply… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
“We all know how it says it’s going to end, Dreamer, but no one knows for sure. That’s up to you, and… — Chani Lynn Feener Copy Share Image
“Focus, my little Seer, you have time to contemplate my good looks at another time,” Khol said with amusement. “I’m not doing… — D.T. Dyllin Copy Share Image
“Recognising such dimensions implicit to the reading experience can distract from the immediacy of our response; it can substitute literary archaeology for… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
A hot bath, time with a book, or five minutes of meditation helps tremendously with recharging and grounding us so we are… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well,… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
“Bad things do happen to good people in this world, but it is not God who wills it. God would like people… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also stayed long in my memory. عيب القراءة بصوتٍ عالٍ أنها تستغرق وقتاً أطول، لكن الكتب المقرؤة بصوتٍ عالٍ أيضًا تظلَّ فترة في ذاكراتي .” — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“One simple change – replacing news and mass media with books – can produce dramatic changes in your life. No matter what… — Martin Meadows Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
The purpose of the E.U. Withdrawal Bill is in any event not to decide the terms of Brexit but to ensure that… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is… — Kim Stolz Copy Share Image
“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance,… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Looking through this intimate window, readers have a choice about their own lives. Will they guard their own internal landscapes or lay… — damali ayo Copy Share Image
“I had just prayed, Oh God, please help me! I want to serve you, but I don't know how. I don't know… — Helen Goldie Copy Share Image
I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
To be honest I think my read is people are now taking this seriously. They realise that the game is up and… — Chris Barrie Copy Share Image
