A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

“Advertising, Marketing, PR can get more people to buy your book. Only great writing can get more people to love it.”

— Ashok Banker

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

— Martin Luther

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

— Joseph Joubert

A great large book is a great evil.

— Joseph Addison

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

— Natalie Dormer

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

— Neil Jordan

“That's great, but what book should I read next?  What book would be a great companion”

— Jason Cannon

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just…

— James Frey

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make…

— Matthew Lillard

An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my…

— Gary Shteyngart

Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards,…

— Edgar Meyer

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go…

— Lawrence Bender

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be…

— Katherine Paterson