The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left… — Eric Dinerstein Copy Share Image
I don't want to read a book on a device. I like a book with a hard cover and text on a… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families,… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“To you, it's a book to read - a nicely printed stack of paper with a beautiful cover. To me, it's a… — Jason P. Stadtlander Copy Share Image
I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Dr Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last thirty years. This book will… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample. — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image