I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well, but her liking it makes me worry now that… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“the author claimed that blacking out wasn’t simply a matter of forgetting what had happened, but having no memories to forget in… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is why, when we have been particularly impressed by a book, we feel the need to talk about it; we do… — Wolfgang Iser Copy Share Image
If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at… — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If… — Peter Esterhazy Copy Share Image
“Through my parent's reading, I learned to love books. Through their humour, I learned to laugh. Through their discipline I learned obedience,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
“The book Emotional Intelligence reported a similar finding. In studying successful people, the author discovered that 15 percent of success could be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
A lot of the time with jobs that I've booked, immediately I'll read the breakdown, or I'll read the script, and I'm… — India Eisley Copy Share Image
“The great author Ray Bradbury knew. He wrote about dark futures without knowledge, and he was quoted as saying, “Without libraries what… — Angela Pepper Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I wanta go to Tangiers, I want girls, I wanta write the biggest book in the world, I want spring to come,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The “Gospel” is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of… — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
