It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used… — Jim Rohn 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 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
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
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
“He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have… — Jamie S. Rich Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship… — Moby Copy Share Image
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I… — Arnold Lobel Copy Share Image
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm… — Nina Kuscsik Copy Share Image
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“I am so obsessed with my life that the books I used to read are resting in the bookshelf for years and… — Neymat Khan Copy Share Image
There was a Ta-Nehisi Coates book called 'Between the World and Me' that I read the prologue, and I was so decimated… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French. That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road.… — David Adams Richards Copy Share Image
Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good… — David Byrne 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, Austin, and they collected some of his writings and put them in a little collection. It's called DreamTigers in English, but it doesn't exist in Spanish. It's a little sampler. But…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/466/sandra-cisneros-862_austin_i-remember-i-was-very-taken-with-a-book_2635005.png)
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