Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. — Jeff B. Davis Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, we are not given a Book of Mormon for some time, just when Christopher had begun to feel… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I'm done with books for a while. They take a lot of time, and they take a lot out of you. Maybe… — Brian Welch Copy Share Image
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for… — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.” — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers. — Om Malik Copy Share Image
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“You disappoint me. We're at the end of the book, and not once did you count Dooku!” — Calliope Glass Copy Share Image
Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“The products your life must have could be in the form books you have written from the values you have added to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“At 12, still digesting every non-religious book he could get his hands on, he memorized a Latin vocabulary book.” — Sam Wellman Copy Share Image
There's so often - in filmmaking, you're backed into something that already has these set parameters, whether it's a sequel or a… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
“He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.” — David S.E. Zapanta Copy Share Image
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
“There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Books are keys to wisdom's treasure; Books are gates to lands of pleasure; Books are paths that upward lead; Books are friends.… — Emilie Poulsson Copy Share Image
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young? — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Good job on Percy Jackson I read all of them 8 times and have listened 42 times and still not bored Thanks. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image