Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.” — Halina Lagarde Copy Share Image
When you come to another bridge in your life to cross, move on. Looking back, It's just a chapter in the past,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for… — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I'm not the crazy chick that people think I am. I am truly a human being, I'm not just this suspicious character… — Keke Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Really good work probably comes out of a willingness to disclose yourself, open yourself up in spiritual and emotional ways that risk… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Islam’s all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The world must be all fucked up,’ he said then, ‘when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.’ That was… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage,… — Peter Glenville Copy Share Image
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me. — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
“And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to… — Corrie ten Boom Copy Share Image
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I'm such a fan of films and books like 'Lord of the Rings' and even 'Star Wars,' despite the fact that, as… — Daniel Dae Kim Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story, most just look at the cover, very few take time to read it. — KR Johnson Copy Share Image
“All I’ve done is give you a book,” she said. “You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.” — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I think people have to read more and learn more about what's going on internationally. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!” — R.E. Fisher Copy Share Image
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
I'm writing kid's books, I'm doing endurance racing with Le Mans and designing bikes. I've also got my own range of cycling… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
Sorry friend I don't known any author of this filled,, no ones is my ideal, it's my filling, my experience, or my… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness. — George Muller Copy Share Image
Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
