I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“A book that I would recommend for everyone: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” — Skloot Copy Share Image
“And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“A ‘library’ turned out to be a room where books were read. The fact that people used to have so many books… — R. Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
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'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read! — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel and every day is a new page. so if a page is sad next will b happy..… — Thought Of The Day Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material. — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days. — Tony Ross Copy Share Image
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Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book. — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
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