When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
“It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to [the words of the wise]. Of making many books there is no end,… — Ecclesiastes 12:12 Copy Share Image
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
“May I encourage you, dear reader: If you are going through a tragedy, don’t shut yourself off from others. It is our… — Terri Roberts Copy Share Image
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Age appears to be best in some things Age appears to be best in some things. Old wood best to burn. Old… — Lorna Grace Copy Share Image
“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one’s own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” ~ Author unknown” — Peter D. Winiarski Copy Share Image
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. — William Collins Copy Share Image
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Author? Author? Did you write these legs?' 'Yes." 'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“the only test any book should ever have to pass is whether the reader likes it” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. — Heinrich Mann Copy Share Image
“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.” — Angélica Calheiros Copy Share Image
One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“That’s what books do, isn’t it? That’s why I love to read. They bring us closer to ourselves.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it… — Ken Olsen Copy Share Image
“Better to find out certain things by living them, not by reading them in a book.” — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to decide whether it's worth turning the page, or whether it's time to close the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
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