“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open… — Chris Adrian Copy Share Image
“With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
“She's reading in bed when I enter but quickly hides the cover when she sees me, as if I don't already know… — Michelle Krys Copy Share Image
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
“I envy all authors who command words on paper. I do not. My English is simple, my gramma is flawed, so why… — Mikkel Skipper Copy Share Image
It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Well, I've worried some about, you know, why write books ... why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
“On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“From time to time I feel as though my books and figurines were with me still. But how could they be? Are… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“If I am willing to read a book in its entirety, I will give it five stars. I do not list books… — Paula Shene Copy Share Image
Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“With the confidence and peace of mind native to true genius, I lay my life story before the world, so that the… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an instinctive parent, rather than one driven by 'shoulds.' When I was pregnant, I read all the books,… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and… — Meghan Ory Copy Share Image
My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The Internet is clamoring for me to admire and interact with the thoughts of my friends and readers around the world, but… — Tsh Oxenreider Copy Share Image
For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Content in the knowledge that no matter what happened with your parents, or your girlfriend, that your siblings will still be there,… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
