I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
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My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
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whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it. — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. — William Lashner Copy Share Image
No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.” — Barbara Bothwell Copy Share Image
“The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.” — Douglas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.” — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
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