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I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I grew up in the seaside town of Porthcawl in South Wales, the third eldest of four children. We weren't overly bookworm-ish… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
“Every time that you read a book, it is like depositing money in the bank. You spend every weekend reading a pile… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
“I have tried to outline, but all that seems to guarantee is that the book will not much resemble the outline, so… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
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I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
