“Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay Copy Share Image
“Oh so we are neighbours?” She tried to smile sweetly, so Maggie felt like she could talk more. Maggie shrugged again, “Not… — Sian B. Claven Copy Share Image
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow,… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Everybody says marriage is 'til death do you part - and I've been married 29 years - but a book is really… — Mike Leach Copy Share Image
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If I were a cop, and I caught a criminal, I’d throw the book at them. A heavy book, like an unabridged… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
