God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books,… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The only reason anybody bought your book in the first place is because they were hoping you would DIE at the end… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write a team book, it's all about how they relate to each other and what they bring to the team… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but… — Ben Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“One of the tragic ironies of modern life is that so many people feel isolated from each other by the very feelings… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Mistake is a single page in a part of Life … but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite,… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life.… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of… — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have always trusted writers, books, thinkers, psychologists in figuring things out. Maybe because they don't know me, so they are always… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
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