There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“But then, as I looked in the mirror, I became fixated on some hairs near my carotid artery that were still there.… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Therefore books do not take the place of experience, because concepts always remain universal, and so do not reach down to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Achtung, motherfuckers. And good afternoon. I'm James Ellroy; the death dog with the hog log, the white knight of the far right,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Sally was on the first floor reading a book, one that she normally wouldn't read, and she felt quite guilty. Twilight. She… — Anjela Myrick Copy Share Image
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the… — Marcus Pfister Copy Share Image
I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible,… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with Ali began in 1988, when we met in New York to explore the possibility of my writing the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room.… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster… — Gaylene Preston Copy Share Image
I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English.… — Tania James Copy Share Image
Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
