My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up.… — Richard McKenna Copy Share Image
People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Anyone watching me might have thought I was consulting a reference book, I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in… — Tex Watson Copy Share Image
Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled,… — Frances White Copy Share Image
I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just… — Lily James Copy Share Image
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Either way, you wrote the book and now you’re complaining about the reviews I’m giving it,” I quipped. “Fair enough.” He held… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
“Mary lifted her own steno book. Only about six pages old, it still had its cool, slim heft and straight cardboard covers.… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
“I always think of books being tougher in a sense, in that you’ve got to sit down and you’ve got to do… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so… — Milton William Cooper Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could… — Lorenz Hart Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office… I worked in… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
![“A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in every sense of the word, I have been bad before and I can play the role pretty good. When I killed those people, they didn't exactly stand there and not do anything. I stabbed that guy [Frykowski]…” quote by Tex Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00a/tex-watson-97546_book_a-lot-of-guys-in-the-prison-think-they-r_1369155.jpg)
