I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge… — George Burns Copy Share Image
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into decline because writers succumbed to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“To je zabluda. Knjiga ne može da zameni svet. To je nemogućno. U životu sve ima svoj smisao i svoj zadatak koji… — Gustav Janouch Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the… — Valerie Wilson Wesley Copy Share Image
My scrapbook albums are about capturing and saving the everyday joys of my whole family. In fact, in lots of ways, it's… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I wanted to achieve something because I thought that we should not just be born and live, so I started writing books. — Chef Damu Copy Share Image
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Books build a stairway to your imagination, that one day may become a Reality, with knowledge obtained through books. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I remember a lecture from one of my lit classes about a theory called "Reader Response", which basically says: More often than… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
“Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life.… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books… — Laurie Keller Copy Share Image
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book,… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book.… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
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