I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it… — Vicky Hartzler Copy Share Image
That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
I decided to write Leadership BS because I was irritated by the hypocrisy in the leadership literature and the fact that many… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I believe that the mainstream publishers, DC and Marvel, need to catch up as well. Out of the fifty-odd books that are… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Book culture has also become something that's kind of incredible to younger people now, because of the Internet. If you go to… — Jim Walrod Copy Share Image
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do. — Jessie Cave Copy Share Image
“At some point though I need to stop cataloguing them or I’ll never get this book finished.” — Joe Cater Copy Share Image
“Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book. — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos. — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone! — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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