Activists Quote by Angie Thomas

“Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present your baby…

— Elvira Baryakina

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to…

— Natalie Merchant

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.”

— D.A. Botta

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,…

— James Branch Cabell

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

“They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing them a…

— Gloria Goldreich

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the…

— Michael Nyqvist

“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing their new…

— Gloria Goldreich

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

— Georges Bataille