The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.” — Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill Copy Share Image
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes, my reading choices are defined by the place I'm travelling next. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
''The Bible a book with too many rules and less love then it actually describes.'' — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“If I, and this book, have anything to prove, it’s that when you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you,… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise… — Poggio Bracciolini Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Let the music of words and the literature of notes harmonize within you, for in this symphony of expression, we discover the… — Ramona I Copy Share Image
I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
“I also have to credit Bill Bilby, owner of Chelsea Books, with two other important lessons: first, his shop was always tidy… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“He savoured the moment. He’d like to take this moment and press it carefully in a big book, so that when he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book. — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I never worked directly in book publishing, but New York media is adjacent. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss. — will.i.am Copy Share Image
“I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations with Jim Harrison” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
![“I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so much world in it and so much rapturous paint thrown around. I don't think it would be possible to write a book on that scale with as much OCD as I have.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/793/george-saunders-317_bigger_i-sometimes-think-that-i-can-t-do-the-bi_3125094.jpg)
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