The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
'Freakonomics' began with a 'N.Y. Times Magazine' profile I wrote about Steve Levitt. I was working on a book about 'the psychology… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
“My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of… — David Almond Copy Share Image
The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Are there weapons in a bookstore?' 'It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction. — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
“He always had books. Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them… — John Green Copy Share Image
J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think sometimes the way to preserve the magic of a book is to throw it away - meaning, not to cling… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some… — Cheryl Lynn Copy Share Image
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
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