There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Keep your life like an open book, before lifting your finger will be forced to think a hundred times. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it. — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.” — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“...she talked in one of her memoirs of ignoring her little brother when she was supposed to be looking after him: "I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who… — Karl Mecklenburg Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Your life is a book and when Someone leaves its only the end of a chapter not the end of your story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“It is the first book, maybe the only book to talk about how the problem of climate change can be addressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being… — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A kiss is like a book, it can tell you a thousand words, but in order to under stand the true meaning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Creativity...passion...sweat...heartbreak...inspiration...and lots of hard work...that is what books are made of!” — Tara Fairfield Copy Share Image
“It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.” — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image