I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my… — Avi Copy Share Image
I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Belle hesitated. “What is this place?” she asked. “A bit of magic, like all goodbooks,” the man replied. “An escape. A place… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and… — Alexandre Borovik Copy Share Image
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings… — Eric Russell Copy Share Image
Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You don’t expect your readers to go, “Ah this book’s not just a fine work of literary whatshisname, but also a get-rich-quick… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me,… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
