A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
I've put on makeup just for fun since I was a really little girl. Now I keep a look book for inspiration… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we're on a journey…It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has… — LeGrand Richards Copy Share Image
When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship… — Moby Copy Share Image
One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm… — Nina Kuscsik Copy Share Image
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I… — Arnold Lobel Copy Share Image
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There was a Ta-Nehisi Coates book called 'Between the World and Me' that I read the prologue, and I was so decimated… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
“What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French. That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road.… — David Adams Richards Copy Share Image
These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
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