I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
If you want something to happen, then you make it happen. Only you can be the author of your own story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year… — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde Copy Share Image
I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
“My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Ell's Double Down…5 Stars keep shining bright! From Leah "I LOVED this book! The characters are strong and the story line never… — Caroline Walken Copy Share Image
When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic… — Gary Dourdan Copy Share Image
“The fact that you already have it all within you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go to school, learn your craft, read books,… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency -… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Don't write off a book (or person, or movie) just because it had a pink, sparkly cover.” — Abby McDonald Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers. — Kirby Dick Copy Share Image
“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions… — Malcolm Goodwin Copy Share Image
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“People’s judgments, criticisms and power games won’t hit you as hard when your plan is greater than the assault.” — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue… — Jerry Sittser Copy Share Image
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
