Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“BOOK FOURTH.—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle… — Patrick Lussier Copy Share Image
'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and… — Douglas Gresham Copy Share Image
In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the book It doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are… — 69rascal Copy Share Image
I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.” — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Part of growing up is learning your strengths and weaknesses. What better way to figure out that hand-eye coordination ain't your thing… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
Wandering the book fair at AWP is a great way to get acquainted with a wide sampling of the diverse journals that… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
