In every John Waters book, you're like: 'Wait, how can this guy be so funny in a... book?' It's like you can… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who… — Brandi Glanville Copy Share Image
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls… — SARK Copy Share Image
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Im going to compile my favorite after this crazy shit... some of these are fuckin amazing.. can someone say coffe table book? — Joel Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“There are things written concerning you in the book of life; that you need to keep opening, till you discover them and… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really,… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
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