I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's… — Vince Carter Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book;… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states—negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer,… — Asher Peres Copy Share Image
After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of… — Johannes Gutenberg Copy Share Image
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
I learn that life is a book, every day is a new page, every month is a new chapter and every year… — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so many of us… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“The fools read books written by those that don’t understand themselves and question the wise; The wise understand themselves and answer the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Here is book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, written by a couple of Christian apologists, which is… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
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