One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn. — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
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You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
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Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth,… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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