You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job,… — Howard Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“The other attack going viral on tumblr at the moment is that I write novels about broken people who need saving, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Many of the names in this book are thus the sort people call "traditional." Others couldn't be further from traditional if they… — K.M. Sheard Copy Share Image
“But that was not all. He foresaw a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, would rage so hotly over… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
You know, if you read a book, once you get to chapter five and stuff starts stepping up, it doesn't mean chapters… — Tyson Kidd Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
The selection of topics for intensive research has often been a function of serendipitous opportunity. My forays into philosophy of education were… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“THE CHIANTI KISSES SERIES Book #1: BABY V Book #2: BOSS Book #3: BETRAYED MY SOUL TO WAKE Book #1: STAIN… — Tara Oakes Copy Share Image
“Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt demonstrated the power of a novel as a teaching tool through his book, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“-and finally, to all of you who've come here tonight to celebrate children's books: every time you find the right, the necessary… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches,… — Charles V. Chapin Copy Share Image
We have published about 800,000 documents of various kinds that relate to Russia. Most of those are critical; and a great many… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Writing is lonely, it's an intimate talk with the undead, with the unborn, with the absent, with strangers , with the readers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
