If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Chapter Twenty-Four: Surprise Better Title: Oh My God! I Hate Everything About This Book! I Want To Kill It With Rocks! AGH!” — Dan Bergstein Copy Share Image
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
“Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land.… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I write a little bit about what it's like to be a female boss in my book [ Is Everyone Hanging Out… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask,… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG'… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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