Over the years, I have attended comic book conventions and met people that are die-hard fans; they'll come up and say, 'Clue'… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
“This book is not about finding balance—we are really tired of doing that! Besides, finding balance assumes that we have been allowed… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you've never met, but love. Even if you… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“many words. "Sun Tzu's 13 Chapters and Wu Ch'i's Art of War are the two books that people commonly refer to on… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out… — Jennifer Lee Carrell Copy Share Image
“I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America, especially… — Carlo Rotella Copy Share Image
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory,… — Siegfried Woldhek Copy Share Image
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and… — Gary Dell'Abate Copy Share Image
I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still… — John Searles Copy Share Image
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Her mother likes to say that novels have ruined Amelia for real men. This observation insults Amelia because it implies that she… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Commencez!' cried I, when they had all produced their books. The moon-faced youth (by name of Jules Vanderkelkov, as I afterwards learned)… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing.… — Ray BradburyBradbury Copy Share Image
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“You’ve come about your manuscript? It’s with the reader; no, I’m getting that wrong, it’s been read, very interesting, of course, now… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again.… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
![“I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes…” quote by Judy Blume](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e83/judy-blume-2002_america_i-thought-books-ban-was-crazy-really-my_2458765.png)
