I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning… — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
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The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so… — Milton William Cooper Copy Share Image
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“She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
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I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
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I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write. — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques… — Tom Berenger Copy Share Image
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