The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“What is clear is that being a reader/fanboy (for lack of a better term) helped him get through the rough days of… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Any place can be romantic if you're there with the right person. Being able to travel well with a partner is a… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of… — Faris Badwan Copy Share Image
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you… — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over… — Clive James Copy Share Image
If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It took 15 years and a Labour government to finally see Section 28 taken off the statute books. But this victory belongs… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image
In searching for further training we turned to England and Bernard Leach. We thought since we had responded to his book so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In one of the chapters of her book my mother characterizes the relationship of sisters as one that "can illustrate the essence… — Reeve Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Natalie, who was the author of a series of wildly successful Hunger Games meets Gossip Girl YA books about a clique of… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“My attic study is full of books, around a thousand of them, of which I might have read a half, the others… — Richard Gwyn Copy Share Image
“Unni had a very serious problem. He had this artistic objection to the heart symbol. He said it doesn’t look like a… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I have readers everywhere: from a radiologist who decides to compliment me on my writing while inserting a probe to check my… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because… — Pamela Ribon Copy Share Image
With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“So you can't please all the people all the time. All you can do is what pleases you, and hope that it… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“These are lines from my asteroid-impact novel, Regolith: Just because there are no laws against stupidity doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be punished.… — Brent Reilly Copy Share Image
In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and… — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath… — Laurie Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The physician had asked the patient to read aloud a paragraph from the statutes of Trinity College, Dublin. ‘It shall be in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
