Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict… — John Searles Copy Share Image
“Man, you should write a book.’ ‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?” — Stephanie Wood Copy Share Image
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it. — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Customer: I'm looking for a book for my son. He's six. Bookseller: How about this one - it's about- Customer: Yeah, whatever,… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“I’m going to consult some witches’ books. Not that I have many here to consult. But I’m not going to Bryn’s house.… — Kimberly Frost Copy Share Image
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one… — Richard Haynes Copy Share Image
“No time for books, no patience. What good would they do? They don’t tell you how to survive.” “No, they don’t do… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE, Is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the rest of the book is prose; — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs,… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American. — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
“If nothing else, books are conversations from beyond the grave. Am I anything at all, Reader, besides this manuscript you hold?” — Daniel Kraus Copy Share Image
I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well. — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Do you want to attend to this book or do you want to read by yourself?” The student responded, “Read by myself.” — Peter H. Johnston Copy Share Image
All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“Almost every name in my address book is crossed out. Two that aren’t may or may not still be alive. Another doesn’t… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
“All you need is one golden apple - a single apple that somebody else wants - and you have control. (Fateful Night,… — KR Hughes TL Burns Copy Share Image
“Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the… — Susannah Mansfield Copy Share Image
