It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“...I reach for the book on my nightstand instead. Immersed in the story of a guy and a girl so entwined, so… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling. — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book. — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .” — Mary O'Neill Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost… — Killian Scott Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story,… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book."… — David Toop Copy Share Image
When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much. — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order,… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
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