But I think you have to accept - as I have accepted - that the demands of TV are different than the… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls. — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“But strangely, I am all right. The world I belong to now is the one in the books I read. When I… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40. — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing a book… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“(respect for the weak being, after intellectual courage, the second most attractive quality to this author),” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Old. Old is relative, girl. No, what makes them special is that they are books from history.” — Hannah Crow Copy Share Image
“Galatians 4:4: “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law.”… — Millard J. Erickson Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Why incentivize laziness? High-school students shouldn't be discouraged from grappling, sometimes unsuccessfully, with challenging books, pictures, and songs. A really, really good… — Jeff Sypeck Copy Share Image
“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
No one ever questions where all these pictures in magazines and books come from. — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately Im writing in pen and I cant erase my mistakes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Yes you see me smiling everyday, but you never see me crying everyday. That's why there is saying don't judge from the… — BabyGirl Copy Share Image
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary. — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.” — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
“Mamma was aware that there were many people who read what she called trashy books, but it was news to her that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds. — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
I have always been an oddball. I was a loner at school, and largely still am, preferring to shut myself away with… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
