I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Like many authors belonging to that large and unfortunate caste, “the unjustly neglected”, Whittemore suffers from being an embarrassingly good read. He… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread… — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
“I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — William Temple Copy Share Image
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
