For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realized it (the original book) had survived, so… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I am never much interested in the effects of what I write…I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Herein, folks, lies the answer of [Donald] Trump's success. In other words, the media covers things as stories that you would read… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, until it’s all over and… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
“I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a… — JR Copy Share Image
“I lay the book on the floor, open to the middle. It's a lovely volume, green leather covers, engraved endpapers. I remove… — Lou Beach Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a given book, we assume that… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
I was waiting for the right guy to come along, but maybe I didn't actually want one, or was not available emotionally.… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
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