That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
You can do whatever you want. If you want to be a singer, author, book writer, basketball player, you just have to… — Jordan Clarkson Copy Share Image
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative… — Namita Gokhale Copy Share Image
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“You’re forgetting… we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I’m thinking… — Matthew Leeth Copy Share Image
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The solution to depression, among other things, is to go within and see if you can tune into more of what might… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke. — Rachel Perry Copy Share Image
“Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives. — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to. — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) — John Clute Copy Share Image
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