“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)” — Orna Ross Copy Share Image
“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.' — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“By reading a book, one can learn in a matter of days what it took the author an entire lifetime to learn” — Pastor John Weaver Copy Share Image
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
“Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.” — Bozorgmehr Copy Share Image
I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me,… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“I knew all about reading a lot. About how it could take you to a world that was better than the real… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is exactly like love. You don’t hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn’t work out,… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
