Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
“for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live.… — James Chace Copy Share Image
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“In my stories, I wrote Malcolm as fire and gold and power, but here in my arms, Colin is cedar, silver, and… — Jacqueline E. Smith Copy Share Image
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realized it (the original book) had survived, so… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities…at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said.… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it's not such… — Alan Robert Copy Share Image
“An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries.… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whereas 'OddParents' was slam-bam and silly all the way through, 'Danny Phantom' has more of a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy comic book feel. — Butch Hartman Copy Share Image
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
“Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could… — Jill Mansell Copy Share Image
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.” — Stackpole Books Copy Share Image
“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book… — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with beauty - seriously, one of my dreams is to write a book about beauty secrets and do a skincare… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
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