“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or… — Kim Hotzon Copy Share Image
You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for… — Shirley Ballas Copy Share Image
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities,… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady… — Florence King Copy Share Image
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I prefer the company of books. When I’m reading, I’m never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
“The name of the book was The Big Board. He got a few paragraphs into it, and then he realized that he… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You can do whatever you want. If you want to be a singer, author, book writer, basketball player, you just have to… — Jordan Clarkson Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
“On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative… — Namita Gokhale Copy Share Image
Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The Bible is wonderful. It's only one book, but you can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds. — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A lot of people think I'm really outgoing and confident, but I'm not. I'd much rather sit in a corner and read… — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as… — Joseph Barrell Copy Share Image
