I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is -… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Women can go mad with insomnia. The sleep-deprived roam houses that have lost their familiarity. With tea mugs in hand, we wander… — Cathy Ostlere Copy Share Image
“I read about it in Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The thing that makes stories memorable is the experiences they impart onto the readership and the emotions that they make those readers… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
Even though I'm a writer and I love books and writing books is my favorite thing to do, when you teach, and… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Tolkien fans reacted so strongly to 'Lord Of The Rings' as a franchise because it stayed true; the heart of it was… — William Kircher Copy Share Image
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or… — Kim Hotzon Copy Share Image
I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“I prefer the company of books. When I’m reading, I’m never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost… — Paul Sweeney Copy Share Image
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“I'm going to fit in you perfectly. It'll be tight at first, but I'll take it slow. ~~'Opposing Counsel, book 1” — D.B. Canavan Copy Share Image
“an adolescent’s knowledge of death and evil ‘should be limited to what one discovers in literature’.” — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
Never judge someones life based on the chapters of their books' pages you walked in on — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
