God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
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I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book,… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite,… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“Mistake is a single page in a part of Life … but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
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I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of… — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
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