Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow Annie Flanders from the SoHo News heard I was doing pictures and was headed to Paris. She saw my worked, liked… — Roxanne Lowit Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written -… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to… — Paul Kropp Copy Share Image
I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me… — Nick Simmons Copy Share Image
“What good is a book no-one can read, save for the paper?" He was lucky I'd had to let him live. If… — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school… — Dorothy Hodgkin Copy Share Image
“i will be sending yhe copies of my book to the winners within two weeks just waiting for copies from create space… — peter fryer Copy Share Image
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I like books. I thought you liked books." "Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
When I'm reading a book and someone asks me what I'm reading, I don't answer. I just raise book up, so they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do;… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
