“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Gradually the idea for a book began to take shape. It was to be a wildly ambitious and intolerant work, a kind… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Preparing the animation is close to the comic book process but there are plenty of problems. It's very interesting, but it's also… — Joann Sfar Copy Share Image
I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film.… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes,… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
“I love anything old. I love to travel and especially like to visit the places where my books are set. My husband… — Kat Martin Copy Share Image
We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As you read a book, it's hard to turn into another page unless you understand the first one.. just like LOVE.. it's… — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
“When we are asleep, so it seems to me, we sleep surrounded by all the years. I have imagined, sleeping, that I… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Although the TV and radio work were nice supplements, the newspaper had been my lifeline, my oxygen; when I saw my stories… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
“Vic smelled the vast vault filled with books before she saw it, because her eyes required time to adjust to the cavernous… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“where antichrist is, there is tyrannical government, imposing laws upon the consciences of God's people; where antichrist is, there is idolatry, superstition… — Various Copy Share Image
“You look like you belong in a bad comic book,” I told him cheerfully. ---------------------- “What did the Drakes do that’s got… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a… — Juliet Barker Copy Share Image
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to… — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge) Whispering to myself With every step I take, Trying out names, for I know There is… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
