“I'm constantly trying to make what Stephen King called head movies or skull movies: things should be playing out on the inside… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the… — Stephen Cole Copy Share Image
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“The central concern of Egyptian art, literature, and architecture was the divine world order -- the pharaoh and the gods, who were… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Als ik een boek les, dan plaats ik de scènes die zich binnen een huisakmer afspelen altijd in een voor mij bekende… — Peter Zantingh Copy Share Image
I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“There's always a strange feeling you get when you come across one particular line by chance. It feels somehow significant. That's irrational… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Sturm und Drang?” “Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Writing my own stories had always been one of my dreams, but I didn't start until I was 29. I was working… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Our goal is to put news where it earns attention, where readers can access it on every device and interact with it.… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I do not treat writing merely as a profession but more of as my "calling" and my way of… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“I suppose I've never set out to write a novel in which nothing happens . . . only to write a novel… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“I admire Tolkien greatly. His books had enormous influence on me. And the trope that he sort of established—the idea of the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context,… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The idea for a book usually bubbles up from my sub-conscious when I am drifting off to sleep. Each one has started… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
“The writings which make up the New Testament were none of them written to be a primary and sufficient source of information… — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
“Book authors are in high demand for speaking engagements and appearances; they are the new ‘celebrity’ and celebrities gain access. Authors not… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either… — Joan Blades Copy Share Image
The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
