For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago… — Heidi Montag Copy Share Image
“Look, there’s not much useful to take away from this book – it’s largely stories of a woman who has spent her… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After… — Ryan Miller Copy Share Image
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Having read the source material, I had to have drawn from that. As a fan, I wanted to remain true to that… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
I hold conferences, and the result of that was that the secular community also started picking up my stuff, and pretty soon… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
When you're working on a TV show, your schedule can be very unpredictable, which means it's harder to book shows. — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
People know that when they watch an Ainsley programme or get an Ainsley book it's going to be something that is approachable… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
“Never mix books and bed. In the spectrum of excitement, sex & thought were on opposite ends. Both to be enjoyed, but… — Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason Copy Share Image
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes! — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
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