Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“In Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us,* the authors state that distractions consume an average of 2.1… — Jill Konrath Copy Share Image
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face… — Brett Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“In adventure books there weren't awkward pauses or embarrassing social scenes. In morality plays and farces there were rarely serious discussions of… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books. — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Brightest stars are seen in darkest nights. Become a hope to people who look up to you.” — Aquib Ali Copy Share Image
See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader?… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums. — Bing Gordon Copy Share Image
I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable. — Paul Gascoigne Copy Share Image
“The best way to learn about books ... is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them.” — Charlie Lovett Copy Share Image
The rhema is regarded as a more immediate word from God which we do not find in the 66 books of the Bible. — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.” — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'. — Tony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together,… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
“Your author has found love to be the full trip, emotionally speaking; the grand tour: fall in love, visit both Heaven and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart. — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
“If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
