You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded.… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you? — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it;… — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young,… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, "I'm the last person in the world that should be doing… — David Toop Copy Share Image
He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role… — Robin Chase Copy Share Image
God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
If you don't know, 'The New Mutants' is like an 'X-Men' spin-off. It was a comic book; Bill Sienkiewicz did it and… — Charlie Heaton Copy Share Image
“I’m hanging on to your words like you’re my favorite book. And, I’m completely engrossed in every page of who you are.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
I've been to Oculus a few times to do book signings and things there, and they tell me 'Ready Player One' is,… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
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