When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to… — Lil B Copy Share Image
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
We're actually trying to develop an iPhone app, now that the Droid is out, we'll do it for that as well, if… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“The main reason to use Booki rather than a word processor to write a book is to effectively collaborate with other authors.… — James D. Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm just talking in my songs about what's going on, what's exactly happening right now. If I was upset about something, I… — Keak da Sneak Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. /… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
