The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really… — Reginald Arvizu Copy Share Image
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide! — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
