I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, are of course by all measures quite wealthy as well, having earned tens of… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Now, I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books... Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians… — William M. Fowler Copy Share Image
Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“For me to read a book is still And always will be quite a thrill. For me to read a book is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present… — Elvira Baryakina Copy Share Image
About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves?… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
“Finishing a book is bittersweet. You spend days getting to know the characters. Learning their nuances, their faults, their loves, their lives.… — Whimsical Enlightenment Copy Share Image
I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
The way the housing market imploded is obviously not an easy thing to explain. It's a little bit easier in a book… — Kelly McEvers Copy Share Image
“He turned to see three kids at his side. Tish and the two little boys. He had to admit the boys looked… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image