My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“She has just written a book too; bizarre sort of thing called the ‘Rent Veil’ or the ‘Torn Scarf’ or something like… — Rebecca N. Porter Copy Share Image
I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Sociopaths differ fairly dramatically in how their brains react to emotional words. An emotional word is love, hate, anger, mom, death, anything… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“books: Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, Encyclopedia Brown, and later, anything with even a passing mention of sex in it: Judy Blume’s… — Ivan E. Coyote Copy Share Image
Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Whatever it is that you’re feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I have done 33 films in one year, for which I hold a Guinness Book World record. Plus I've done songs for… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Http://www.wattpad.com/story/7922311-miss-popular-and-mr-right Check my story out... Sorry for not putting up a quote, I will in a bit. — Linda Yassine Copy Share Image
The 'Lost' style book is really quite set. We do things like, we walk through the jungle, and we stop and turn… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I… — Albert S. Ruddy Copy Share Image
If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by… — Bjork Copy Share Image
In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Without the personal traumas, tribulations and ‘terribles’ that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn’t have gained the information necessary to write… — Emma James Copy Share Image
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
“This is what we do with books: we put our longings and our questions and our angst onto trading ships and send… — Julian Darius Copy Share Image
No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value. — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
