“i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“You are created to be a creator. God does not give anyone a finished product. God did not create the telephone, car,… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art… — Will Lavender Copy Share Image
Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet.… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I don't exhaust myself by reading or listening to the noise around me. — Quique Setien Copy Share Image
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will. — Irene Thomas Copy Share Image
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Warning: This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great.… — Greg Pak Copy Share Image
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My mind goes really quickly and I tend to talk really fast, as you've probably heard, I sometimes lose track of my… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
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