In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades,… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,” — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke. — Jory John Copy Share Image
I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
Tokyopop's been extraordinary. They approached me to do My Dead Girlfriend - Julie Taylor, one of the senior editors was a huge… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
When my friends asked me to blog, I thought why not write a book? People may be interested in knowing what it… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in what the public thinks. My fight is in the courts. And while I have been fighting with the… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems,… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God’s will.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You… — P.B. Kerr Copy Share Image
I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Anselm Kiefer made a book for me. He was taking pictures of me and my friends when we weren't posing, just all… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.” — Thomas M. Cirignano Copy Share Image
I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
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