Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from… — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics. — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there. — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
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“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
One of the great things about writing a series is that with each book, the novel is meant to stand alone on… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm… — Jason Wiles Copy Share Image
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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