I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
My daughter Lily's the oldest, and by the time she was six months, we just had books of photos. Poor little Maeve,… — Chris O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The EU Kids Online project is the most theoretically informed and methodologically sophisticated study we have on the issue of risks in… — David Finkelhor Copy Share Image
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
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I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I… — Marc Acito Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die.… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
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“Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?" At first, Liesel could not… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in.… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere.… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
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