I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“To me, you are a book I have opened. I can't put it down. I need to know more.” — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. BECAUSE THAT BOOK MIGHT JUST BE THE LOVE STORY YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. — Ashley Copy Share Image
I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
You can do whatever you want. If you want to be a singer, author, book writer, basketball player, you just have to… — Jordan Clarkson Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
“I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers?” — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“it's a misconception that book sellers look after books, they look after people.” — Nina George Copy Share Image
How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“If the eyes are the window to one's soul then books must be the doorway to the universe.” — Jeffrey Michael Copy Share Image
