Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood, — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I think if Marvel called me to do anything - if they called me to film the phone book - I would… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book. — Bristol Palin Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
If youve bought a ticket to see me perform, youre heroes in my book. Youre better than the people who didnt buy… — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image