Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My first book, 'When You Were Mine,' got optioned for film and went into preproduction as 'Rosaline.' That was the classic model:… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to… — Allan Sherman Copy Share Image
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
“This book is about confronting your bad behaviors. It’s about understanding your infuriating inconsistencies. It’s about stripping the stereotypes that surround your… — Heidi Priebe Copy Share Image
A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
When I saw how much the message of the song resonated with people I began to realize we're all on the same… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
In several speeches and interviews, Donald Trump has brought up his book 'The Art of the Deal,' and said that Obama would… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've… — J. R. Martinez Copy Share Image
The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier,… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is… — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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