Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects… — John Green Copy Share Image
A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“I lay the book on the floor, open to the middle. It's a lovely volume, green leather covers, engraved endpapers. I remove… — Lou Beach Copy Share Image
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a… — JR Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.” — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
I never worked on anything so hard in my life [like my book 'Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos'], including the Bar… — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn't know at the time that the… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
When I am playing, I try to keep the genre very easy-going and breezy. I can't be into the book and not… — Mithali Raj Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
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