In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If I were to write a book about my life, I swear it would be the best-selling book for the longest time.… — Monica Copy Share Image
“Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on,… — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I grew up in the seaside town of Porthcawl in South Wales, the third eldest of four children. We weren't overly bookworm-ish… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
“Every time that you read a book, it is like depositing money in the bank. You spend every weekend reading a pile… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries.… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“In every person there lies a book that can be enjoyed by others only by escaping through the lips or finger tips.”… — Jim Conover Copy Share Image
“Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
