I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I actually didn't read the book [Fast Food Nation]. I wasn't aware of it. But when I read the script, I thought… — Wilmer Valderrama Copy Share Image
...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated,… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come… — John Green Copy Share Image
In The Moon, Come to Earth Philip Graham takes us on the best kind of journey, as he simultaneously reveals the fascinating… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
It is always sort of unnerving to hear from people who've read my books. I'm not reading any of the reviews and… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like… — Andy Greenwald Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about.… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act… Only… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for… — Brett Dalton Copy Share Image
My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
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Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
“For is not a Book the most reliable of Companions--and generally among the most stimulating as well? No need to worry about… — Natalie Wexler Copy Share Image
I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The thing about humour is that the super-ego is also at play, so what interested me, particularly in the last chapter which… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image