The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn,… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me about my book...read it. You will find what you need and what speaks to you in the depths or… — Ina Brink Copy Share Image
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly,… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a 'nose bath' in an old book… — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead'… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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