So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Also, congrats on the paperback book release! I purchased the eBook several months ago and love it, and now I just bought… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
“I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.” — George Kohlman Copy Share Image
Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Trying to play my part and stay home, Burying my nose in a book like a gnome, But I know how Rapunzel… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books. — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
“Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by… — Gareth Roberts Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The room was lit with small reading lamps and there were books everywhere: piled on the coffee table, under the coffee table,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had. — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The thing about the books is that they really talked a lot about what was going on inside of Bond and the… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image