The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves. — Andrea Brown Copy Share Image
I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print.… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really… — James Frey Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Tessa had begun to tremble. This is what she had always wanted someone to say. What she had always, in the darkest… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many… — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
“ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK LENT TO A FRIEND I GIVE humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground,… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“That's right I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a… — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image