I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should… — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
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Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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How to Stay Christian in Seminary should be placed in the hands of every first-year seminarian. It provides a much-needed balance as… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm… — Kesha Copy Share Image
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Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch,… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
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I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
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I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle! — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
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The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would… — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image