You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Im going to compile my favorite after this crazy shit... some of these are fuckin amazing.. can someone say coffe table book? — Joel Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
In every John Waters book, you're like: 'Wait, how can this guy be so funny in a... book?' It's like you can… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who… — Brandi Glanville Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
“These are the books that brought me closer to myself, that shaped me and my world -- I hope they'll bring you… — Sara Nisha Adams Copy Share Image
“Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there… — Amy King Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image