Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
I read the books, get some, Listen to others, get little but what i get the most is to sit and think. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Being an author is like being a kick boxer. You take a lot of hits to the head.” — Judah Lee Davis Copy Share Image
When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went. — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it? — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“As David Eagleman describes it in his wonderful book Incognito: Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia—hundreds of billions… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“...Emily hit the Terrible Twos and I bought a book called Toddler Taming. It was a revelation. The advice on how to… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“You can know all about a person from the things they collect, the books on their shelves, the chairs in their parlor.… — Lynda Rutledge Copy Share Image
I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
“lives in Austin, Texas,where he devotes a large portion of his timeto geeking out. This is his first novel.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you need to force yourself to put a book down to breathe, you know it's a good one ;)” — H.A. Kotys Copy Share Image
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.” — Christopher Crawford Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read read as read when its actually supposed to be read as read. I want to cry. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
“A novel requires a hero, and here there's a deliberate collection of all the traits for an anti-hero” — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image