“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I've gone through all of it: I've literally heard every single name in the book be told to me. So don't be… — Manny MUA Copy Share Image
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the greatest album ever. There's no greatest book, greatest human, greatest movie. At a push, the closest… — Richard Norris Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
“i just read this awsome book called Farworld!!!!!! it is so awsome wel i think u should read it and find out… — J. Scott Savage Copy Share Image
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline,… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.'… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong.… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time… — Jeffrey Littorno Copy Share Image
When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It's hard when you are placing all your bets on this one project to skyrocket you to a place where you can… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being. — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
