When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
There are some very powerful contributions to knowledge in the scientific world or the legal world, but art is singular. That's why… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!'… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in… — Scott Banister Copy Share Image
In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or… — Melvin Burgess Copy Share Image
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
We have a whole other division, where we actually literally take the comic book and animate it. Our feeling was that, if… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate… And I'd like… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but… — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
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