You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.” — Paul Leicester Ford Copy Share Image
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem… — Mark Earley Copy Share Image
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I… — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us… — David Connis Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood.… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
