I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people… — Eve Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
[With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Every book your read is an opportunity for self-growth and expansion.” — Rachel V Perry Copy Share Image
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in… — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous:… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
“It is a place of fine weather, and this is a book of fine weather, a book written in Spring. I will… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like. — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Hmm. I wonder if you got stuck somewhere in the last twenty pages, because you’re the first one to complain that this… — Cris Tovani Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good,… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
“I have my own e-reader, but I hardly ever use it. I need to fold down pages and flag passages with sticky… — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked… — Liam W. Russell Copy Share Image
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image