It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish,… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's the life and there's the consumer event. Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm just talking in my songs about what's going on, what's exactly happening right now. If I was upset about something, I… — Keak da Sneak Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“The main reason to use Booki rather than a word processor to write a book is to effectively collaborate with other authors.… — James D. Simmons Copy Share Image
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and… — Yxta Maya Murray Copy Share Image
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make… — Jason Polan Copy Share Image
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“But mama it’s hard to read books these days. The world has gone digital. Print books are almost burden-some. The volume, of… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow. — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“The good thing about having our buttons pushed is that we can no longer ignore the sensitive areas where we need to… — Mary Buchan Copy Share Image
“I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I have always felt that books help me feel less alone in the world. They make our lives bigger - they help… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else. — Juliana Harkavy Copy Share Image
If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite;… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“My book, Ambassador Book one: how to take on the world and win will help to illuminate many of the obstacles that… — Ken Taylor Copy Share Image
Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image