“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own… — Kristy Swanson Copy Share Image
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thanks!It's not a long book but it's taken a year to write. It's fnially [read: FINALLY!!! YAYAYAYAY!] feeling ready for my editors!… — Auth Copy Share Image
“...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
My fans probably know what I had for breakfast that morning. And that's the cool part. And I respond to people, if… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
“The most important sentence in a book is the first sentence. Everything follows from it. The first words have to stop the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I got into comics because I wrote an 'X-Men' novel for Pocket Books, and I introduced myself to the head of recruitment… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
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“When a book ends, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the world. It's a gift from you to the… — Jennifer Probst Copy Share Image
Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever weirdness was going to be in there, I felt, had to be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology… — William Webb Copy Share Image
I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many… — Emily Osment Copy Share Image
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image