I'ts funny how our lifes are like a book, & with god as the author, every chapter has been decided and can't… — Lesly Giselle Martinez<3 Copy Share Image
One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it,… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
My daughter Lily's the oldest, and by the time she was six months, we just had books of photos. Poor little Maeve,… — Chris O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“In this book, I will also see into the future and report my findings to you and to select heads of state.… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
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“Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
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“The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“as Barbara Tuchman, author of Distant Mirror, put it, “clerical celibacy was a joke.” Despite the previous ban on clerical marriages, nuns,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Saul came into my room, prowling around and around, restless, and he saw the new notebook, and pounced on it. “Oh this… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“I learned the rule about lesbians’ nipples from the porn books my stepfather kept under his mattress, the same place I had… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
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Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
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I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
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