A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing'… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of… — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive.… — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
I'm a big researcher. I love libraries and archives and I have a huge National Geographiccollection. I have a good amount of… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed” starts Orhan Pamuk to his famous and brilliantly written book:… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
I think the style Plimpton popularized - the dive-in, try-it-yourself journalism - is appealing and useful for a number of reasons, not… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
“So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to wander around… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you? — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
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Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
“This is a book about everything. It is about everything I know and about everything I think you should know, too.” — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to… — Susan Patron Copy Share Image
When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it.… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. — Carlos Drummond de Andrade Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli": "According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies." ” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought… — Valerie Bertinelli Copy Share Image
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