You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways,… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like… — Kaci Brown Copy Share Image
I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If people don't invest into new manufacturing, renewable energy, new health-care technology - these are our revenues and our bookings. — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
“You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
I have read loads of books on Napoleon. For him to come from nothing and then lead his country, that fascinated me.… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
“If you want to successfully write to market, you need the right tropes, and you need to employ them like a master.… — Chris Fox Copy Share Image
I think a play can do almost anything, because it's also a static form, much more so than in a movie. In… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“And I will read part, as much as time allows in the second half, of the new issue of Computer and Automation,… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the… — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
I graduated from college December of 2017 and looking ahead and thinking about potentially starting a book, I just kept getting hung… — Kyle Carpenter Copy Share Image
Boys, books, school, looking good, music, gossip, food, twitter and problems. A girl's daily routine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I read way too much given all I want to do every day, and I only recommend books I really like.” — Gary Lincoff Copy Share Image
“Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I was lucky: I feel like I've written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Though I'm not as addicted to gaming as I'm to books, I have to admit that I can't stop myself from grabbing… — Akshara Haasan Copy Share Image
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
I read 'The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success' every day. The first time I read it, I was 35, depressed, and about… — Garrett McNamara Copy Share Image
There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a… — Gerald Petievich Copy Share Image
“Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.” — Bozorgmehr Copy Share Image
“I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take… — M.J. McGuire Copy Share Image
The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“By reading a book, one can learn in a matter of days what it took the author an entire lifetime to learn” — Pastor John Weaver Copy Share Image
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.' — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Every generation comes upon the movie again, and then, invariably, the books have a spike in sales because people want to read… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
“Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
