Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book. — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.” — Ford Maddox Copy Share Image
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
A book is like a treasure chest¦. You open it, and the words are the treasures. If you sleep with your book… — Curly Copy Share Image
I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal… — John Van de Kamp Copy Share Image
“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. Most likely you will… — The Pocket University - Volume XXIII Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
“Your life is a Book; it may be a volume of larger or smaller size; and conversion is but the title-page or… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination.… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did. — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Books should grow the soul - while the reader has a little fun along the way.” — A.K. Frailey Copy Share Image
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones. — Guillaume Musso Copy Share Image
“I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter. — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“This book is a very enjoyable read - I read it in a weekend. Eveline Maedel” — Vicki M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Life is like a Book.Don't try to open my book if you are not going to read it — Sushan Sharma Copy Share Image
“No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!” — Chrys Fey Copy Share Image
Book is a half of a clapping hand and the reader is the other half of it. :)) — Reader's Digest Copy Share Image
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
