The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations. — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes. — Hans H Wellisch Copy Share Image
“For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as… — Joseph Barrell Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt. — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it — Betty White Copy Share Image
“I learned a lot from this book, because I wrote it myself. My rating may be somewhat biased as a result.” — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
The Pope also said that while he's in town he would like to go see 'The Book of Mormon.' — David Letterman Copy Share Image
With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character. — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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