Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I optioned a book called "Rare Objects" by Kathleen Tessaro and I'm adapting it . It takes place in the 1930s and… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
It's one of those things where the book has all these stars that burn really bright that you hang onto and they're… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
... I had a dream where I was taken to Heaven and brought into a beautiful library. There I was given two… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect… — J. M. DeMatteis Copy Share Image
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG'… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask,… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism,… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
“I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the couch… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
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