I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who… — Jan Harlan Copy Share Image
Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“I am trying now to re-create in my mind the picture of the man as I saw him in 1939- he, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I love the way you nod when you see me, I love the way you a,ways buy potato pies from the canteen,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bulahdeen ignored her. "I taught literature for nearly forty years. The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“Inside each of us resides the truth, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus Copy Share Image
One book that I just think is absolutely beautiful is 'The Kite Runner.' I'd recommend that one to any and everyone. — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Never give up, Never surrender!!!!! If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins” — Paula V. Hardin Copy Share Image
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm.… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.” — Kristen Lamb Copy Share Image
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.” — Michael Baron Copy Share Image
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“It may be lazy to sit on the couch all day. But if you are reading a book while sitting on the… — Kristin Hansen Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar — Bill Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
