Many people told me not to call the book '... Refugee' because Aussies won't buy it. I told them I have faith… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Books were the main reason Rose worked in bookstores, for no matter how chaotic and strange the worlds in them might be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Books are what you love. They are what you know. It's obviously your passion. I didn't want you to lose that. You've… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
Be careful not to judge a book by its cover. What you think the story is and what it really reads, could… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for… — Colleen Haskell Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use… — Jemaine Clement Copy Share Image
