“This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he… — Tehmina Durrani Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life.… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.”… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of writing advice. It’s not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it’s here to… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty. — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
“As the grandmother, mother and girl said their good-byes and went on their way, Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception… — Nina George Copy Share Image
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image