I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“In this book we will synthesize a single algorithm will all these capabilities: Our quest will take us across the territory of… — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing.” — Brian McClellan Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an… — John Green Copy Share Image
Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Miss Birkinshaw was like an old ivory carving, Prudence thought, ageless, immaculate, with lace at her throat. She had been the same… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When Jamie left for basic training I knew exactly what I had to do. Of course, I knew what it feels like… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
“An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops… — M.J. Stoddard Copy Share Image
I'm not good at sports, but I do exercise because we have to move. Besides walking my dog four times a day,… — Maye Musk Copy Share Image
“In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very… — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
I'll maybe write a book - I wish people read more. But I don't know about developing and starring in a show… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“All in tune with love and the slow world moving" from the poem - STAY from the book - RidingTheEscalator” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“The end of a novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Some believed that Satan had come to earth in human form as a party activist, his collective farm register a book of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. — John Green Copy Share Image
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Learning from a first-hand experience is a much better teacher than a text book!! — Adaeze Don Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Mirror the reader to himself and then show him afterward how your product fits his needs. — Raymond Rubicam Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Books aren't made of pages and words.Tehy are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.” — Harlequin Copy Share Image
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm excited to share my first book 'HWPO.' It features workouts, training, nutrition, and mental approaches that paved the way for my… — Mat Fraser Copy Share Image
“The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.” — Paul Andreas Wunderlich Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
