It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
There's a generation of people that do fetishize books and do fetishize catalogues and do look at them as something important. The… — Jim Walrod Copy Share Image
“she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for… — Daniel T. Willingham Copy Share Image
A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But… — David Brin Copy Share Image
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
I go to a library. There are lakhs of books; all of them are very valuable and highly informative. Now what should… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“The sneaky heftiness of the book being the aggregate cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of individually insubstantial little markings, letters and… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his… — Confucius Copy Share Image
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This book," he began, "is very, very unsuitable." He paused, then went on. "In fact, in my whole life, I have never… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s,… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Movies are definitely more fun because there are so many different seasons in a movie. It is exciting to be drafting together.… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
I love the Hunger Games books. Certainly, the fans are there. They're grown enormously since the beginning. When I first brought the… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
