“Whose book is it anyway? The hardest thing a writer has to learn is that once you publish a book, it's no… — Julie Bertagna Copy Share Image
My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Who's Mrs. Gummidge?' 'If you're a good girl and get well soon I'll lend you the book.' 'Oh, somebody in a book!… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Signs usually come in threes. The same book is recommended to you several times within the space of a day, for example.… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Post-publication I have been surprised at the limited resources publishers have to promote books. I certainly knew that being a new author,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader, This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known. I have made… — Kelly Gardiner Copy Share Image
Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls… — SARK Copy Share Image
And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“The bookstore itself was cozy but not crowded, with posters of classic novels framed and hung on the walls. And it was… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
“Gutenberg (hesitantly): Perhaps the book, like God, is an idea some men will cling to. The revolution of print pursued a natural… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“I believe in brevity. I believe that you, the reader, entrust me, the writer, with your most valued commodity—your time. I shouldn’t… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence - to the spirit as well as to the body.… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
![“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create. It's in reading that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million…” quote by Mohsin Hamid](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a3d/mohsin-hamid-798_book_when-you-read-a-book-what-you-see-are-bl_397757.jpg)
![“There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian and me and two assistants, although we're growing a little bit now. He read the [The Hunger Games] book and loved it, and told me I should read it. He had been a fan of…” quote by Nina Jacobson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d21/nina-jacobson-8759_assistants_there-is-a-young-fella-who-works-for-me_2776624.jpg)
![“I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'” quote by Deborah Levy](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0f6/deborah-levy-20056_asked_i-realised-that-the-question-i-had-asked_2764000.png)
