... 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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'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'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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women.… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you might be interested in; then, you need to… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination,… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books—the closeness of them, their contact, their smell, and their contents—constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror. They are the… — Tahir Djaout The Last summer of Reason Copy Share Image
It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book… — Keiko Fukuda Copy Share Image
“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image