I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
So before I start work on a book, I'm like a pregnant mole - I obsessively tidy and order my closets and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating… — Steve Valentine Copy Share Image
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad… By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's… — Fred Reichheld Copy Share Image
I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
“Books, for example, the accrued capital of the human experience, all the wealth of the human mind, books help you think bigger… — David McCullough Jr Copy Share Image
Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fast reading of a great novel will get us the plot. It will get us names, a shadowy idea of characters, a… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Once I began a book, I couldn’t put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live;… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
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