A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
There's so many great matches that you can think of. I could fantasy book all kinds of stuff, you know, fight a… — Roman Reigns Copy Share Image
I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
“In the same way as some illiterate, if he saw an open book, would notice the figures, but would not comprehend the… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
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I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I… — Soundarya Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Helping my little sis with homework!!...Freshening up on American government! Can't believe it's been 10 years since Ive read this book! — Audrina Patridge Copy Share Image
I'd love to write a book and dabble in TV a little more - but only if it's right. I'm not going… — Elvis Duran Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean. — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
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“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
“Legendary comic book storyteller Will Eisner put it this way: "Technique is secondary. Technique comes as a result of how you do… — Brian McDonald Copy Share Image
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
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