The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing I want to say to the person who finds this book in their own version of year one,… — G. Scott Graham Copy Share Image
There was a woman on the radio the other day who had wrote a book about how difficult it was in meetings… — Alice Nutter Copy Share Image
I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“The easiest way to write a book is to use the Table of Contents as an outline. People get stuck when they… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may… — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I love doing [stand-up]. I love making people laugh no matter how. Whether it's a commercial, or a TV show, or a… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In every John Waters book, you're like: 'Wait, how can this guy be so funny in a... book?' It's like you can… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who… — Brandi Glanville Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“There are things written concerning you in the book of life; that you need to keep opening, till you discover them and… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really,… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image