You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I loved comic books. I loved Miss Marvel. I talk about Harley Quinn all the time because I think playing villains is… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I swear I will neva figure out girls. Just when you think it's good its not good. I think all girls who… — Kevin Mccarty Copy Share Image
We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“When you read as many books as Klaus Baudelaire, you are going to learn a great deal of information that might not… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
Two guys, one girl, and the mess they can create amongst themselves may be the oldest story in the book, but it… — Neha Sharma Copy Share Image
“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book... — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
As a family, we are all very close, so we all know what we all are doing. Other than that, we don't… — Bobby Deol Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
