I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The theory is that Mariah Carey can sing anything. You hear that expression, 'She can sing the phone book.' So if you… — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
“She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Being only twelve, Klaus of course had not read all the books in the Baudelaire library, but he had read a great… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
We get the scripts before the table read, but I don't look at them until we go into the table read. I… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
One way to read the Book of Mormon is as a book of encounters between fathers and sons. Some of those encounters… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it.… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V.… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“mother's love of books and spent a great deal of time outdoors, where she grew up independent and free spirited. Nature became… — Sandra McLeod Humphrey Copy Share Image
I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
“The 4:8 Principle is a book about thinking differently, about thinking in a way that maximizes your potential for joy. Because most… — Tommy Newberry Copy Share Image
Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of… — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
“Today, the concrete data point strongly in the direction of the God hypothesis. . . . Those who wish to oppose it have no testable… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away.… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“Once I got home, though, and saw several packages on my front porch, all the crap from the day disappeared. A few… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. It's up… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I make jewelry occasionally. I'm not a hobbyist. I'm a reader, I'm a lover of books, I like to watch movies, but… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
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