I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It's very hard for me to write back to some of the fan mail, so one of the things I wanted to… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
I grew up with comic books and cartoons and action movies. To find myself in the position to do work in these… — Hoon Lee Copy Share Image
Whether I'm on the road or at home, I get a great deal done on elliptical machines. I use my iPad to… — Amy Jo Martin Copy Share Image
One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Dany "Bring me that book I was reading last night." She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and… — J. Don Cook Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym! — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for. — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image