Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“God always provides safety for the soul, and with the Book of Mormon, He has again done so in our time. Remember… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I… — Marc Acito Copy Share Image
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The meteors produce a loud momentary effect; we look up, shout 'see… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“How does it happen that in life as in literature, rebellion, however pure, has something false about it, whereas resignation, however tainted… — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“We are part of a holy community that for three thousand years and more has been formed inside and out by these… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“Female readers, on the other hand, were unmoved by the book, one of them going so far as to give it the… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
“In order to keep liking Nick (as opposed to loving him which was completely non-negotiable) Alice sometimes had to look at him… — Carol Anshow Copy Share Image
For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from… — Yuna Copy Share Image
Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States,… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They… — Commonweal Copy Share Image
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