“Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.” — Wayde Goodall Copy Share Image
“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“It is just as honorable. . .to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best… — William Warren Prescott Copy Share Image
“Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged” — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
“Brendan: "You can't find out everything from books, you know." Aidan: "I think I read that once.” — The Secret of Kells Copy Share Image
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel & study all of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There I was, clinging to the scraps of happiness that I could finally feel again: coffee and books and an afternoon with… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
“[Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience… — Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“He got up. It was too early to go to bed; at least, he was not in the mood for it. He… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman;… — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones'… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“...I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.” — Sofija Copy Share Image
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think Ruin and Rising' is the best written of the three and the most structurally sound, but each book means something… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
“Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".” — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“[Honey is sweet] and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
“Cut everything superfluous,' Pound had said. 'Go in fear of abstractions. Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war,… — Fred Hammond Copy Share Image
I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic. — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
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