I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly… — Vince Passaro Copy Share Image
Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading. — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in every man’s life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away… — Steven Hardesty Copy Share Image
I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“...I reach for the book on my nightstand instead. Immersed in the story of a guy and a girl so entwined, so… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“The greatest threat the hearers face is to be found unprepared to encounter God or God’s Christ at his coming (6:12–17), thus… — David A. Desilva Copy Share Image
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.” — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking. — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
“Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)” — Eric J. Gates Copy Share Image
I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
“...we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image