Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
When I am playing, I try to keep the genre very easy-going and breezy. I can't be into the book and not… — Mithali Raj Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn't know at the time that the… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
I could have been a better mother. My children assure me it was fine. But when you are running to catch the… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen,… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Flatland was a great book...Edwin Abbot. I gotta say, I went nuts over A Brief History of Time, the Stephen Hawking book.… — Seth Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects… — John Green Copy Share Image
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I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Open your book of life only to a few people. Because in this world very few care to understand the chapters, others… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
The English idiom don't judge a book by its cover is a metaphorical phrase which means you shouldn't prejudge the worth or… — Wikipedia Copy Share Image
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All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make… — John Howe Copy Share Image
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