Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
“I’m an open book—an open book I’m still writing and editing. My book is a romance novel, sort of like The Secret.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond Copy Share Image
“A good book should make you think at the end, not just give a solution to the problem at the end.” — Sydney 4363 Copy Share Image
“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Dear Momma―Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.” — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm very much a people pleaser, and the first book had such a devoted and loving following. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure I wanted a love interest for Alexander. The thought of being jealous of a character in a book was… — Allison van Diepen Copy Share Image
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch… — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too. — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
“My brakes sound like my horn, and my car’s bumper is bumpy enough to be brail. My ideal reader would be a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned… — Tablo Copy Share Image
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Our life is like a book and when Someone leaves you. It's only the end of a chapter not the end of… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“I've never met an author I can't love to hate or a book I haven't paid full price for.” — Keith M. Weller Copy Share Image
“What I love about reading cookbooks is that they are "clean pornography" for food addicts such as myself .. and quick and… — Janet Pole Copy Share Image
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
