I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom.… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
They tried boiling books, but that didn't work very well." "I'm surprised they haven't tried boiling one another." "Oh, it's been tried,"… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It helps to be reminded of positive thoughts and positive attitudes. Get a small book of positive, inspirational thoughts and keep it… — Nate Copy Share Image
“When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not… — Cornelia Maude Spelman Copy Share Image
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“The feminist philosophy that has shaped my thinking has been articulated most clearly by Marilyn Frye;67 Catharine MacKinnon68 has been influential in… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
Damen is gorgeous. I know this without looking up. I just focus on my book as he makes his way toward me… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Frankl said that he wrote the book “to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell you how exciting it is when you first see your book in paperback, then when the good reviews roll… — Sue Stokes Copy Share Image
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“No, I have never had a problem finding books to read. But I have had a problem finding people who understand what… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
“He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...For him no disillusionment was ever greater or… — Emile Verhaeren Copy Share Image
It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
“There are few aspects of my family not imbued with Jewishness; it is braided through every memory, part of nearly every conversation… — Tova Mirvis Copy Share Image
I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“This is better than a romance novel." P.J. said with a wistful sigh. "You read that stuff?" Cole demanded. "Why the hell… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
