I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! Best weapons in the world! This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm… — The Doctor David Tennant Copy Share Image
Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Ordinary people like you and me can achieve very little on their own. We need to build support. Even if you are… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." He flipped the book open to the front page, where the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky that I started out as a reader of the comic book and a viewer of the show. And I… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina. — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
“As life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
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I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive. — Tyrone Hayes Copy Share Image
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I'll talk to Howard Stern about anything. I listen to him every day. I love him. When you go on his show,… — Ross Mathews Copy Share Image
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
“Contents About the Book About the Author Also by John Grisham Title Page Dedication Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.” — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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