It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of the problems I'll have… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for. — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians… — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Underground comics were striking in that they seemed largely unedited - in a typical book, with stories by five to ten creators,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of… — Liberace Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“What do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a book What do they know anyway? You’ll read it in a book… — Belle & Sebastian Copy Share Image
[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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