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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“If I, and this book, have anything to prove, it’s that when you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you,… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for… — Dorothy Cannell Copy Share Image
My intention is always to honor the character that Lev [Grossman] created in the books and my greatest concern, honestly, is that… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“Mary lifted her own steno book. Only about six pages old, it still had its cool, slim heft and straight cardboard covers.… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Either way, you wrote the book and now you’re complaining about the reviews I’m giving it,” I quipped. “Fair enough.” He held… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
When I closed the chapter, I'll say, in the book with TNA in 2013, literally within, it was under 30 days -… — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!” — William Styron Copy Share Image
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book.… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places… — Peter James Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The No. 1 thing is to write the book that you love and then hope that it finds an audience with the… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
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