Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it,… — Peter James Copy Share Image
My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
The whole point was just to be yourself, no matter what that was. You didn't have to fit into a certain punk-rock… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things… — Ian Watt Copy Share Image
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“This book takes the opposing stand that in order to go deeply inside ourselves, we must journey within our physical bodies.” — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book… — Audrina Patridge Copy Share Image
“Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later.” — Christopher Herz Copy Share Image
I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Rosemary, why do you love books so much?" (...) "Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its… — Kim Boykin Copy Share Image
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him -… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types'… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top:… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I want 'Like Brothers' to answer young kids who ask, 'How could I possibly become a filmmaker?' This book will step that… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
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