The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Any time you have any type of record in any record book, especially with the Lakers, it is pretty special. — Kyle Kuzma Copy Share Image
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life. — Mary Wiseman 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
Im going to compile my favorite after this crazy shit... some of these are fuckin amazing.. can someone say coffe table book? — Joel Zimmerman Copy Share Image
I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who… — Brandi Glanville 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
A film, since it is primarily a visual medium, should really be like a silent film. You should be able to watch… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
I'm a big researcher. I love libraries and archives and I have a huge National Geographiccollection. I have a good amount of… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was… — William Bastone Copy Share Image
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I think the style Plimpton popularized - the dive-in, try-it-yourself journalism - is appealing and useful for a number of reasons, not… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“To friends and books, and friends in books, may our stories be long and our friendships longer.” — Molly MacRae Copy Share Image
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate. — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though… This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently. — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone. — Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
