It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There are moments when I resent even buying a book. But browsing is wonderful. I like to go and browse everywhere, even… — Milena Canonero Copy Share Image
“A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.” — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“Life is like a movie. Just roll up a film. When you finish it, just be kind and rewind. Don't live it… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
What I've learned from my gurus is that when you hear music, you hear a person, or you hear people, and you… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“Waiting for a book to be published is like having a baby. It would be nine months before we heard the patter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Just keep her away from bookstores, if you can." Bookstores. Thanks, Grayson. That helps. Apparently whoever said, "no harm ever came from… — Jena Leigh Copy Share Image
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book,… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee,… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where [Judy Blume] books were ever banned, and now like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is being read… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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