My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“What gives meaning to your life is rooted in your definition of the author of life.” — Felix Wantang Copy Share Image
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million… — Anonymous-9 Copy Share Image
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“People aren't like books. You can't set them on a shelf and expect them to stay there.” — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
At the time that 'Detransition, Baby' came out, I was really resistant to having anybody say that I was representing trans women.… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps.… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand … Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“...You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it.… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Students: did you hated when your Professors gave exams, and some of the books on the class reading list they actually wrote. — JOHN REYES Copy Share Image
Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature. — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
As a Scotsman, my first Tintin book was of course The Black Island, my favourite Tintin adventure since then! — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to? — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
“Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action. — William Fichtner Copy Share Image
“You're beautiful, Jenna. i'm a man and I'm afraid to admit when I'm lucky enough to look at someone as beautiful as… — E.L. Montes Copy Share Image
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
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