A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year;… — Hal Varian Copy Share Image
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The Bible is all God's speech, as well as all mediated through human writers who wrote the individual books. It's a mistake… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is… — Lois P Frankel Copy Share Image
I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
Someone can do three episodes of 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' then turn around and book a primetime show. That's happening all… — Ashley Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I'm a huge comic… — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your… — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
