Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
If I checked out a book, every time I checked out a girls...i would be a walking genius! — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
There are many books in the library, each with its own story to tell. But as you fall in love, reality becomes… — Boys Be Copy Share Image
“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.” — Neeraj Singhvi Copy Share Image
Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own. My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own!” — Cas Lester Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
At some point in the idea process, I simply wear myself down and force myself to choose. But here's the thing: Once… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his… — Aaron T. Beck Copy Share Image
I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles… — John S. Savage Copy Share Image
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that.… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow. — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since… — Barry Corbin Copy Share Image
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
“God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“To find the books end, cross the ancient wood to the mystic isle. Until then, prepare yourself for the coming battle. .… — Michelle Zink Copy Share Image
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“In modeling: He with better looks is more in demand than he who has read better books.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it. — Pauline Baynes Copy Share Image
I jerk off inside books and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you probably never heard. — Immortal Tech Copy Share Image
I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren't being… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Arthur felt as though he were being read like a book, and wondered whether this girl would like his story.” — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
“Our life is a blank book and we are the authors…. Write and shape your story as much as the mind can… — Jason Calder Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. — Dorothy Garlock Copy Share Image
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,'… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“Laurie welcomes ALL Reviews from readers, and will supply an e-book version of the books listed.” — Laurie Bowler Copy Share Image
“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
