Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“I owe a particular debt of gratitude to the following people. This book truly would not have been possible without them. Michelle… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together,… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home -… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
Failure Is A Single Paper In A Part Of Life. But Success Is A Book Of Your Own Biography.. Don't Loose A… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it,… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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