What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and… — Texas Battle Copy Share Image
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“No person or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far to strange for… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you've done is talk about writing a… — Pat Walsh Copy Share Image
An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china.… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money. — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a lightheartedness to the subject, in… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
