My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Author points out how easily non-agricultural people miss the picture of God as all-providing in Psalm 50:10, Word to a people for… — matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going whichever way the… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book to point out there is no one we can say is crazy. To put a label on anyone… — Donna Snyder Rn Bsn Copy Share Image
“Fight not with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it; So if they fight you (in it),… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking.… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“these audible demonstrations that whether the feeling is vested in abstract systems or in personal relationships, the world of the novel’s story… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“She was also single, not a surprise. Her favourite book was the Bible, and she belonged to a number of Catholic groups.… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...]… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities,… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think what happens is that we're so busy as pastors that we never get around to trying to turn that material… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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