I feel like I'm a library book. I've been used, tossed around, and put down. I'm just waiting for someone who think… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I… — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
By the end of the book, it is quite different than the way you thought it would be when you started the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
When I read Deborah Brenner's book 'Women of the Vine' about women wine makers, I was impressed that many of the women… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our… — Francoise Hardy Copy Share Image
By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly… — Francis George Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books,… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
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