Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and… — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
It's not unheard of, in the course of life, that if there's enough interest in it, we could consider going a second… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
