Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The people who says, the book is better than the movie, are fucking assholes. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I tell people life is like a book being written by heavenly hands that we can't see. — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“you get nothing else from this book, know this: your deceased loved ones are loving, guiding, and protecting you from the Other… — Theresa Caputo Copy Share Image
“Where do we go from here? Would books help us?" "Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that,… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“The last time Anna had really read anything was when she was a student. José Saramago’s Blindness. It had left her perplexed.… — Nina George Copy Share Image
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat. — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Wait, I'm sorry, but how do you not read books? Like-what do you do on planes?” — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“On a book by Henry James: "Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She might be a captive, but in this room, with a book in her hand, she could be free.” — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul. — John Smith Copy Share Image
The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
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