If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald… — David Wong Copy Share Image
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
“... my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity.… — Allan Wolf Copy Share Image
The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J.… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I… — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
“You don’t even know me,” I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. “How about I call you when I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas,… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
As somebody who's kind of a technophile, I'm interested in how traditional and digital publishing connect. Maybe ten years ago they were… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.' I'm only talking to myself. I'd… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I must follow my Lord. No matter what. I must renew my allegiance every morning. It is His voice I must listen… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
