I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I said: 'I'm throwing in my job, and I'm going to write a book.' Everyone thought: 'She's off her trolley,' and it… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect… — J. M. DeMatteis Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
... I had a dream where I was taken to Heaven and brought into a beautiful library. There I was given two… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St.… — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“I put the book down and went to the window. I stared at my reflection and the trees behind it for a… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because… — Pamela Ribon Copy Share Image
With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of… — Josh Keaton Copy Share Image
Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
