“Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.” — Pai Kit Fai Copy Share Image
The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille.… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games]… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Any book that you're writing about your life, there are tough chapters that you've gotten through, you've survived them, and kind of… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Evolution was Vladimir Ilich Lenin's problem. Lenin lead the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and took over Russia. He killed the Zar [… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
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I do write, but for now I am keeping it all in the desk drawer. I have always written. The only book… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized… — Dale Purves Copy Share Image
“It would finally be a book that excluded no one. And then when all the world's people had been singled out and… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“...it would seem that whoever did write this book knows you very well. You appear in it, sir. As...as the hero.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it… — Christian Siriano Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success,… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand. — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my… — Jeff Sampson Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I have a favorite either on-screen or in the books! Whenever I'm writing, I'm always really excited to… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
What to Expect When You're Expecting' was gifted to me by my best friend Antara, a new mom herself. The book helped… — Koel Mallick Copy Share Image
Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods':… — Tana French Copy Share Image
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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