I've always remembered this quote from a book that I read as a kid. It was something along the lines of "What's… — Russell Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
Kanematsu Sugiura…took down lab books and showed me that in fact Laetrile is dramatically effective in stopping the spread of cancer. The… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
“Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your… — Welwyn Wilton Katz Copy Share Image
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
There are many aspects of time we just do not understand. That’s the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books,… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
“Micah Goodman, a popular teacher on the Israeli scene and one of its young public intellectuals, wrote his first three books on… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“But I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
My sister played the piano. She's two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also… — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith]… It appears to me, to… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
Dear book, this is another day in my life. A life is like a book. A book is like a box. A… — Gia Carangi Copy Share Image
I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image