“There are good books, indifferent books, and bad books. Amongst the good books some are honest, inspiring, moving, prophetic and improving. But… — Vernon Sproxton Copy Share Image
“For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“External motivation is usually the most important to establish early in the book. Internal motivation can take a bit longer to develop… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for… — Jon Spoelstra Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Ian once suggested that in addition to the mystery stickers and the sci-fi and animal ones, there should be special stickers for… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine.… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Blogging has mostly been an opportunity to react more immediately to experiences to try out ideas that I may end up using… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Everybody's different and every person is different and every actor's different and everybody has different wants and needs, but I'm a kid… — Tim Rozon Copy Share Image
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The year before was my first collection for Emilio Pucci, and I was just starting the job and working in his Renaissance… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. “Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“This book has awoken something in me. I don't know what it is, but it feels good.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
