'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction,… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a… — Elizabeth Berg 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
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Influence: It takes an influential leader to excellently raise up leaders of influence.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time… — John Irving Copy Share Image
'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only… — Peter James Copy Share Image
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs. — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
“Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?"… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it:… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book… — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
