Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes… — Reem Acra Copy Share Image
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Life can’t be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with… — Lee Bermejo Copy Share Image
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Is it like a Harry Potter thing?" He turned his head then. "A what?" "A Harry Potter thing," she said again. "You… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“नील कण्ठ वाहनम् द्विषद् भुजम् किरीटिनं लोल रत्न कुण्डल प्रभा अभिराम षण्मुखम् । शूल शक्ति दण्ड कुक्कुट अक्ष मालिका धरं बालम् ईश्वरम्… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was… — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
“The first book I ever read that made me cry. I was seven and hadn’t realized books could do that. Just finish… — Mary Ann Rivers Copy Share Image
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Girly" can be limiting if you're told it's the only option. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image