Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought… — Valerie Bertinelli Copy Share Image
“You really have a thing for books." When I didn't respond, he closed the the laptop without touching it. "It's cute.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
What really education for achieving the weight of books are required for children should be doubled by weight — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and… — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
“Did it ever occur to you," asked Kira, "that I may be here for the very unusual, unnatural reason of wanting to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Publishers and writers are desperate to cash in on the latest craze, be it baseball, the founding fathers or jihad. Their livelihoods… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A… — Robin Sloane Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen… — Kaye Dacus Copy Share Image
I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine… — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better… — Hiroshi Ishizaki Copy Share Image
When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week… — David Gest Copy Share Image
I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
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