My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm… — Judith Hill Copy Share Image
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are… — George Weah Copy Share Image
It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind,… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“The sticklers Truss appeals to in the book are distinguished by several features. One is anger out of proportion to the crime.… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“RE: Lake George from a book by Lord. That's all I know. "There is something so perfect about the mountains and the… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown.… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell… — John Waters Copy Share Image
