I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
“Books are keys to wisdom's treasure; Books are gates to lands of pleasure; Books are paths that upward lead; Books are friends.… — Emilie Poulsson Copy Share Image
One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for… — George Packer Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think Chris Ware is the only person whose books I've actively and consistently purchased for years. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I wanted to achieve something because I thought that we should not just be born and live, so I started writing books. — Chef Damu Copy Share Image
Walt Disney has never addressed himself to children once in his life - never. The material of his cartoons is made to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better! — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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