Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make… — Future Copy Share Image
I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Doost", Ahmed voiced. "Doost",he repeated softly,shutting his eyes. The word felt like a caress. "what does it mean?" 'It means "The Friend","The… — Muriel Maufroy Copy Share Image
You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is… — Mel White Copy Share Image
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn. — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
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You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth,… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
![“I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975] and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb5/warren-mackenzie-4654_book_i-used-to-think-shoji-hamada-never-drew_3123577.jpg)
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