I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that. — Jody Hill Copy Share Image
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“You have not read till you understand the spirit of the matter.” — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Two Chapters of "The Complete "Kids Want To Know" 5 Book Boxed Set” — J.W. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Expand your mind. Read something every day whether it’s a book or an article.” — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write. — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." ―Salman Rushdie” — Jim Denney Copy Share Image
“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.” — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Do I think that, when we're teaching a book at school, should we go through a myriad list of trigger warnings? No.… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
“I spied a copy of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey on the coffee table. “Haley, are you seriously reading that crap?”… — T.B. Markinson Copy Share Image
“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Finally, while I don’t want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens’s Great Expectations over Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, though I’ll… — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's best to be happy do your favorite thing to do like,reading a book — Maria Angelica Zabala Copy Share Image
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)” — Blanche Bachelar Copy Share Image