You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches,… — Charles V. Chapin Copy Share Image
“-and finally, to all of you who've come here tonight to celebrate children's books: every time you find the right, the necessary… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous part of lending books lies in the returning. At such times, friendships hang by a thread. I look for… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
When we are angry, we will use a lie as fast as a truth if we can hurt with it. Anger feels… — Pat McBride Copy Share Image
I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“I had read four thousand pages of letters by Lawrence and I wanted thousands of pages more... I wanted them not to… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society.… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, my father told me there are two kinds of people in the world: smart people and wise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Here is Max De Pree at his best, and that is very good indeed. In Leading Without Power, De Pree shows us… — Richard J. Mouw Copy Share Image
In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A book is a better way to develop a complicated idea, or to tell a big story and to show how ideas… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to… — David Schweikert Copy Share Image
![“I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.” quote by David Duchovny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83c/david-duchovny-1754_beach_i-don-t-know-if-samuel-beckett-is-someth_2849454.jpg)
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