“Books. They live their own life in melancholy Happy in their crispy destruction under yellowish tinge.” — Raj Doctor Copy Share Image
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper. — Rachael Bermingham Copy Share Image
“When I hear a critic speaking of an author’s sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight'… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I actually was doing ghostwriting jobs since I was 17 years old, so I've been supporting myself off and on with writing… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
“More than a few people, some of whom think they know me quite well, have remarked that they are struck that I,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Before writing [the book], I lived out the words. A gay girl once? Yes. Now? I am what God's goodness will do… — Jackie Hill Perry Copy Share Image
While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
British cookbook author Elizabeth David led the most adventurous life but is widely credited with bringing to the fore the importance of… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Being an adult is basically a choose your own adventure book but every choice sounds terrible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
“In the background is the hiss of the gas heater; we hear the sound without hearing it for, side by side, together… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand,are the most use full after all” — Johnsoniana Copy Share Image
“The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pleasure and awe." ~ Robert Pinsky,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.” — Saru Singhal Copy Share Image
“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.” — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The distribution might which Penguin brought to the table and the stature they gave me as an author is unparalleled. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference.… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. — Giorgio Baglivi Copy Share Image
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living. — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. — Howard Aiken Copy Share Image
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