Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Welcome to How to Work for Yourself, a book that’s meant to get you in the right state of mind to start… — Bryan Cohen Copy Share Image
“One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors. — Ben Shneiderman Copy Share Image
“It’s sweet. Passionate. Appealing to the senses.” Andy sounded serious, like a true critic. “Have you thought of majoring in literature?” — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
VLife comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“...Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as… — Douai-Rheims Bible Copy Share Image
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book.… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“As you have been on the road, what have you been hearing from readers about A RELIABLE WIFE? RG: The most interesting… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Books are one thing I love above all else. In a story, I can become anyone, travel any place. In those pages… — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I grew up watching different kinds of shows and films and read so many different authors. — Sanya Malhotra Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.” — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Gene Hackman's portrayal of Lex Luthor did not exist in comic books. This is not my Lex Luthor, but I really like… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though… This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently. — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate. — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
