I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?! — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I talk to people who go to rehab, and they get this AA book that they've got to read everyday - really… — Reginald Arvizu Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
My first book, 'When You Were Mine,' got optioned for film and went into preproduction as 'Rosaline.' That was the classic model:… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that.… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
After 'Bake Off,' I got these book deals that were very much baking books. But the books I'm producing now like 'Perfect… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
