My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn't write another book. I'd be so busy collecting awards! I'd… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly,… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Gutenberg (hesitantly): Perhaps the book, like God, is an idea some men will cling to. The revolution of print pursued a natural… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader, This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known. I have made… — Kelly Gardiner Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me about my book...read it. You will find what you need and what speaks to you in the depths or… — Ina Brink Copy Share Image
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing,… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
