All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
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A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline,… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.'… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
You shouldn't think of these movies as being 'The Lord of the Rings.' The Lord of the Rings is, and always will… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong.… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time… — Jeffrey Littorno Copy Share Image
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
If you have time to chatter,Read books.If you have time to read,Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.If you have time to walk,Sing… — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And,… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,'… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image