“superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).” — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Don't believe everything you read in the press. If somebody starts with me, I try to mess them up, but I don't… — Sid Vicious Copy Share Image
I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. — Whit Burnett Copy Share Image
“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house,… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“While reading a book by candlelight, the flickering candle flame dances on the words of the book, and the story of the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
“Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past. from the book 'I Know… — Mariam and Fatima Masood Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“When you're inside your own story, you don't see things like a reader. You don't see your life in tidy paragraphs and… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“As I started to read the 100 year old letters their story unwound and I began to share their passion for life… — Mark Wardlaw Copy Share Image
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Here is the cover of my upcoming book...soon imma upload it on wattpad and hopefully it will be in stores by december… — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because…Well…Because you're a different person each time.” — Derrolyn Anderson Copy Share Image
Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Little Fires Everywhere' and sold the book in 2015, still the Obama years. The possibility of a Trump presidency was… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I don't remember everything I have read but I do remember quite a few reds that I have seen — Danny Santagato Copy Share Image
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