A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned. — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions. — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice. — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“This is where it starts. When they write the legend, this will be the first page. Some old monk will go blind… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story',… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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