I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life:… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
My book 'Things Get Better' has normalised the idea that it's OK to fail and it's OK to seek professional help from… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
We're actually trying to develop an iPhone app, now that the Droid is out, we'll do it for that as well, if… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
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OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and… — James Corden Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous -… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it… — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself. — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role,… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them. — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons,… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image