Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them,… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that … — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need… — Glenda Millard Copy Share Image
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. — Brooks Robinson Copy Share Image
Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
