No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
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I came to realize that the law is about a book of rules, and he who learns them best, and is the… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy Book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of,… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A… — Robin Sloane Copy Share Image
The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St.… — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
“There are no electromagnetic field (EMF) book millionaires yet, but that may change with the roll out of the fifth generation (5G)… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I write a little bit about what it's like to be a female boss in my book [ Is Everyone Hanging Out… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land.… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
While writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], [idea of inclusion] occurred to me, you either believe in the Constitution or you… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Chapter Twenty-Four: Surprise Better Title: Oh My God! I Hate Everything About This Book! I Want To Kill It With Rocks! AGH!” — Dan Bergstein Copy Share Image
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot.… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image