In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation ... — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“So many signs exist today that you could write a book about them. In fact, I did, The Beginning of the End,… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books… — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the folks at Christian books will fire you when they find out about your devil powers-John Gramm” — Natasha Larry Copy Share Image
“And a second thank you to my genius editor, Julian Pavia, who pushed me as hard as I’ve ever been pushed and… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow… — Tsitsi Dangarembga Copy Share Image
“I tried to lift the book in a kind of salute, but it was way too heavy for that. In fact,when I… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. Easily nauseated. Likes Reese's and Oreos (i.e.… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Don't be fool enough to think you can know a person's character after a few moments of observation. You can't. You have… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
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I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born… — Edouard Bourdet Copy Share Image
“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
We are the authors of our lives! We write in pen! We can't erase our mistakes but we can learn from them . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with… — Parker Young Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I’m not what you might call a mystery. I’m pretty much an open book – Jake says I’m an audio book, because… — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family. — Josie Bissett Copy Share Image
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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