I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
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“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, thats a talent. And its not all about… — Usher Copy Share Image
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
“I read the title from the cover. ' 'The joy of... crap.' ' I read the rest of the full title of… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,'… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
A lot of martial artists that I know, a lot of officers that I know, they all are really into comic book… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“He turned and looked at Henry. “Did you always know that you would write all these books?” “I know the next sentence,”… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research,… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
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This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full… — Gareth Roberts Copy Share Image
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd… — Keith Jackson Copy Share Image
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
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