I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
The genius of Freemasonry is not our Masonic buildings and temples or the trappings of our organizations. It is not our great… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis Copy Share Image
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to… — Horace Copy Share Image
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody.… — Tom King Copy Share Image
If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe,… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected...Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
I get letters from adults saying that they love the books because they are more in-depth with characterization than the comics. The… — Lisa Yee Copy Share Image
“I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.” quote by Natalie Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/84f/natalie-goldberg-1741_book_t-he-one-thing-i-want-for-you-is-to-reco_1097467.jpg)
![“[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,'…” quote by Matt Fraction](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/416/matt-fraction-20494_bars_a-comic-book-writers-union-will-never-ha_1232159.jpg)
![“I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.” quote by Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2f7/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_i-hate-ebooks-it-s-like-making-believe-t_766419.jpg)
