Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People who don't wait for Jesus to come spend their time searching for him...an effort leading to finding a fictional character in… — Jenova Calamari Copy Share Image
Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not… — Mario Copy Share Image
“What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?” — Kathy L. Patrick Copy Share Image
Dee Dee was very childlike. He had a vivid imagination, and the two books he wrote were 75 per cent fact, 25… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be… — Ed Stoppard Copy Share Image
Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“It gets you thinking about all the parts in a story we never see" --he cleared his throat-- "the parts around the… — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
“To you, it's a book to read - a nicely printed stack of paper with a beautiful cover. To me, it's a… — Jason P. Stadtlander Copy Share Image
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“We all grow old, even books. But are you, is anyone, worth less, or less important, because they’ve been around for longer?’… — Nina George Copy Share Image
Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better! — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Lucky that I have recorded my memories in some more lasting way than ink. But I always knew that there would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it. — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life's Roadways! This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I was very small, I loved 'Meg And Mog' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. I had all the books and… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“This is a powerful book--Tiny is mighty. Sharon Rowe's simple shift in thinking is a profound idea, precisely what we need to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
“I can close the book on this part of our history. I can start a new chapter, but it doesn't matter. because… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.” — David A. Santos Copy Share Image
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books. — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.” — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING! (according to all book covers they're fantastic and… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
We wanted to write a book that we would have read as kids, and would love to read to our children. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
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