I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in… — John Green Copy Share Image
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all… — Vishwas Mudagal Copy Share Image
“We're slammed at work and busy at home. Throw in an occasional outing with friends or significant others, and we're ready for… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little… — Doug Dohring Copy Share Image
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my… — Ianthe Brautigan Copy Share Image
In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
“Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby. She sits still as the boat silently floats… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“If an angel should come and tell a different story from that in the Book, don't believe it.” — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“One of the most valuable things you can gain from any book is a list of other books that are worth reading.” — Dave Hoover Copy Share Image
My understanding is that a book becomes a best seller only when it is pirated, sold on footpaths and at traffic lights. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When you're working on a novel, you never think about how much it would cost to shoot one of your scenes. But… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I've actually steered away from just calling them 'comics.' I just call them books. — Lights Copy Share Image
The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And… — James Spader Copy Share Image
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
