I didnt 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 don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Belle hesitated. “What is this place?” she asked. “A bit of magic, like all goodbooks,” the man replied. “An escape. A place… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book."… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
'The Rose Society' was definitely the hardest book I've ever written, because it's so difficult to stay in that dark space. — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I… — Mark McNairy Copy Share Image
“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome.… — John Scott Copy Share Image
There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead… — George Noory Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
“Remember when you first started your business? The enthusiasm you had? It's my job as the author of this book to restore… — Chris C. Ducker Copy Share Image