Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book. — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books. — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A book may be not just what it says in the text, but the background beneath it.” — Angelina Hu Copy Share Image
Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
“we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.)” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do. — Tara Brown Copy Share Image
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“I am writing a book entitled "Conquest." Please be ready. It is a book children should red.” — Charles Keith Hardman Copy Share Image
To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I won't call 'Cabin' an anti-home invasion story, because that's not exactly true, but the home-invasion subgenre is one I generally don't… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
“But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if the book… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“Both of them are obvious dwellers in the valley of the shadow of books.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.” — Ian McNulty Copy Share Image
“People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd...” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
