I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books… — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
“Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read,… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order,… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Tegus, I'm leaving this book behind for you, so you will know the why of it all, and maybe you'll forgive me,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I had an erroneous idea that writing a duology would be simpler than writing a trilogy because I would get to cut… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground… — James Vance Copy Share Image
I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some,… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Book: [to Mal] If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A… — Josh Whedon Copy Share Image
Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint… — Wallace Tripp Copy Share Image
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Everybody's different and every person is different and every actor's different and everybody has different wants and needs, but I'm a kid… — Tim Rozon Copy Share Image
“This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
We're very powerful nuclear country. I've been briefed, I can tell you one thing about briefing that we're allowed to say, anybody… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image