Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how… — Rachel Zoe Copy Share Image
I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so… — Milton William Cooper Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
“I always think of books being tougher in a sense, in that you’ve got to sit down and you’ve got to do… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could… — Lorenz Hart Copy Share Image
The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book… — Alexander Whyte Copy Share Image
“then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I know this in a way from my police background: the second you mention, "The system's racist," one-third of the country simply… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Also, congrats on the paperback book release! I purchased the eBook several months ago and love it, and now I just bought… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion… — David Liss Copy Share Image
