The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I had the money I'd pay people to have them read accurate books or posts about our own religion. It is… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.' — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and… — James Corden Copy Share Image
John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again.… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Some of the teams who read and applied the first edition of this book didn't get the part of the message about… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13… — Katie Price Copy Share Image
With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay.… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty… — Denene Millner Copy Share Image
I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image