I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two… — Celine Buckens Copy Share Image
I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
“Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time,… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene.… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I remember the first Batman, the first Superman comic books when they came out, thinking how great… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day… — David Cage Copy Share Image
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a 'nose bath' in an old book… — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would… — Dai Sijie Copy Share Image
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and… — Nancy Kassebaum Copy Share Image
No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead'… — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image