I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't know if kids still read it, I just know that for me - as a boarding school kid - the… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
“most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly,… — Marguerite Porete Copy Share Image
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are… — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was… — Collier Schorr Copy Share Image
“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of… — E. J. Banfield Copy Share Image
The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct. — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or… — Max Born Copy Share Image
There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn't seem worth mentioning over dinner. They're all so… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for… — Ruby Bentall Copy Share Image
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of… — John Green Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books —… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the… — John Hill Burton Copy Share Image
I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers.… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
