I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
I read a lot, I always read. I like to be inside a story. When I started acting, even in high school,… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“This book was made much better with the help of our beta readers: Alia Renee Capodici,” — India Drummond Copy Share Image
“When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
At first Disco Night wasn't meant to be a book, although I'm always thinking about that in the back of my mind.… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I think that's what distinguishes YA from adult fiction - it's not just the age of the characters, but it's the sense… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
When you come to another bridge in your life to cross, move on. Looking back, It's just a chapter in the past,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In my couple of books, including Going Clear, the book about Scientology, I thought it seemed appropriate at the end of the… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written, — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I might go visit it one day, but I couldn't do any more than just visit. I love it, don't get me… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas. — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“So young and yet already carrying a great burden on her shoulders. Do not worry, my dear, I will make sure you… — Stephanie Beerden Copy Share Image