I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I didn't have the same biases on Trump that others had. I read his books and saw a man who had a… — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
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“I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed… — Martha Southgate Copy Share Image
“When you release your first book, all you really need is to get a few people to love it. When you release… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“I am interested in the literature and religion of ancient Israel. I focus on biblical law in its ancient Near Eastern context… — Bernard M. Levinson Copy Share Image
What took you so long?” Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“No one wants to carry someone when they’re heavy from life. I read a book about that once. A bunch of drivel… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“But in another book by J. M. Barrie called The Little White Bird … he writes …” He started flipping through a small book on… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on… — Jenny Nimmo Copy Share Image
“Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde: Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
“- Then whit? - Git a job. Or git oan a scheme. - No gaunnae stey oan n take Highers? - Naw.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“I'm all right, Nic," Wolfe said, and finally looked at him. "We walked through the dungeons under Rome, survived Philadelphia, and this… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape -… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I want to write a book called, "Bonfires and Bras," which follows around a young, braless feminist who struggles to adopt in… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The truth is that I understood very little of what she was saying. Before Alex, what thrills I'd experienced I'd found in… — Aria Beth Sloss Copy Share Image
I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a movie maker only. When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's… — Michael Warren Copy Share Image
I came into my own, you might say, in terms of putting out my first record quite late in life. And yet… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“...throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes… — Philip Sheridan Copy Share Image
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“The name Maldoror, suggesting as it does evil, gold, horror, dawn, sadness etc., seems a curious hybrid, but on reading the work… — Alexis Lykiard Copy Share Image
The kind of dystopian books that I've always loved the most are the ones where you find yourself in a world that's… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
