“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Merrill Krause - You mentioned God's will for me. How will I know what that is, Father? Bogart Krause - I've always… — Tracie Peterson Copy Share Image
I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The library was full of wizards, who care about their books in the same way that ants care about their eggs and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us… — George Williamson Copy Share Image
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
“In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as… — Sydney Herbert Evershed Copy Share Image
I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it.… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men...… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg Copy Share Image
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“...Emily hit the Terrible Twos and I bought a book called Toddler Taming. It was a revelation. The advice on how to… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
“As David Eagleman describes it in his wonderful book Incognito: Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia—hundreds of billions… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“You can know all about a person from the things they collect, the books on their shelves, the chairs in their parlor.… — Lynda Rutledge Copy Share Image
When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“ME, a neurological disease[20,21], has been described in the medical literature since 1934 under various names[22], e.g., epidemic neuromyasthenia and atypical poliomyelitis,… — Frank Twisk Copy Share Image
“So I’m reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but it’s about Hades and the… — Julie James Copy Share Image