I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“Are there weapons in a bookstore?' 'It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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