When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
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So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a… — Anonymous 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
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
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
At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
I love the BlackBerry. I'm on it all the time. I literally wrote my whole book, 'Unwrap Your Sweet Life,' on the… — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
“Some people said there was a secret society trained precisely for that purpose, toiling away generation after generation, poring over the book… — Traci Chee Copy Share Image
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures… — Kim Hyesoon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Situations and people are a lot like books. Always take time to read them, pause, and then read again. Make sure you… — Matthew Wilson Copy Share Image
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally.… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book… — Michael Nyqvist 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of… — Boy George Copy Share Image