I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without… — John Green Copy Share Image
Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties. — Edward Norris Kirk Copy Share Image
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming. — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book. — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
“it takes a village to build success in publishing a book - it takes friends that are willing to help - it… — Rich Okun Copy Share Image
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
My ideal reader is somebody who trips over a copy of my book on the sidewalk; then they pick it up and… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is. — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I really want to do a 'True Blood-Six Feet Under' comic book crossover. — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes. — Greg Rutherford Copy Share Image
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
