It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
“Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more." (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and… — Stephen Noce Copy Share Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.'… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me),… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
Because I cook a lot, I wanted to write a recipe book, really incorporating the message that you don't have to starve… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can… — Jia Pingwa Copy Share Image
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory… — Wilmer Valderrama Copy Share Image
I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... look… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it.… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end.… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“I’ve never understood people who grind through a book they don’t really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
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