You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In his groundbreaking book Guns, Germs, and Steel, biologist Jared Diamond poses the question: Why did Old World diseases devastate the New… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I think it's a great thing to hear the author reading. I've listened to CDs of Cheever and Updike reading their stories… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I shouldn't have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn't have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn't… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
“Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“You've never seen that? Tiny little pieces of pasta in the shape of letters of the alphabet. The letters are mixed together,… — Brice Matthieussent Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's -… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“You should all know how to read music. It's as basic to understanding the composer's reaction as knowing how to read words… — Jennifer Laurens Copy Share Image
“I have thought I am creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
There is huge money to be made - by candidates, by book publishers, by merchandise peddlers - from small-dollar conservative consumers who… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Warwick in… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night , the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing , one of many of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
