I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I've been approached a few times to write a book, but it's always a concept or a plan that I've not actually… — Gemma Atkinson Copy Share Image
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max.… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just… — Lily James Copy Share Image
“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled,… — Frances White Copy Share Image
“Mary lifted her own steno book. Only about six pages old, it still had its cool, slim heft and straight cardboard covers.… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The human body is a book of secrets, covered in skin and written in blood. Those who which to learn its mysteries… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers;… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably -… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
“Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book.… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
