When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
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“But I suspect the reported number of good novels this year is a result of 9/11 and all the other alarums of… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Books were everywhere in their large apartment. Histories, biographies, novels, studies on Quebec antiques, poetry. Placed in orderly bookcases. Just about every… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“I only wanted books—nothing more—only books, only words, it was never anything but words—give them to me, I don’t have any! Look,… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Later, years later even, sometimes I might say, "How about the duel on the cliff with Inigo and the man in black?"… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
There are those who say life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“THE DOMINION IN 1983 by Ralph Centennius Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year 1883, by Toker &… — Centennius, Ralph Copy Share Image
I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties:… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
“My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
We were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter,… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got… — Barbara Sukowa Copy Share Image
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“We will never ask what a book means, as signified or signifier; we will not look for anything to understand i n… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
“The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“[I] threw open the door to find Rob sitting on the low stool in front of my bookcase, surrounded by cardboard boxes.… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And… — Luke Pasqualino Copy Share Image
“A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don't look like the typical reader. I'm in Barnes & Noble… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
“Tom read,—"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." "Them's good words, enough,"… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image