If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback.… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
“Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not… — Thomas Spence Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think… — David Small Copy Share Image
I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending,… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
They're so effusive with their love... theatre fans. I'm a big comic book fan and there's a lot of parallels with them… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
They say never judge a book by its cover.. but how will you ever see the inside if you never give the… — Yushantha Naidoo Copy Share Image
The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a library book. I've been used, tossed around, and put down. I'm just waiting for someone who think… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind,… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
“... the bestselling novel taking the Ankh-Morpork literary world by storm was dedicated to Commander Samuel Vimes. The title of the book… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
