My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!'… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but… — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Elephant and Piggie could just Google themselves! With the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series, we're picking artists who have a voice… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that you see in the world ...We have a collection of gloves that have been run… — Andy Spade Copy Share Image
One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings -… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We have a whole other division, where we actually literally take the comic book and animate it. Our feeling was that, if… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate… And I'd like… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Running through my mind are thoughts of all the races I ran. On my chest are medals from the races I won.… — Douglas Wakiihuri Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“A book from a nearby shelf tumbled to the ground and the pages rustled a moment before settling. I bit my lip,… — Lani Woodland Copy Share Image
“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into,… — Ann Sutherland Copy Share Image
I learned with 'The Disaster Artist,' when I was writing the book, the audience will follow you if you really try to… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was… — Eve Marie Mont Copy Share Image
Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us… — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
“This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class.… — Thea von Harbou Copy Share Image
At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it… — Nicholas Blincoe Copy Share Image
![“That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00d/barack-obama-17_black_that-is-another-theme-in-the-book-dreams_10185.jpg)
![“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.” quote by C.J. Sansom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/799/c-j-sansom-22985_accepting_have-you-ever-thought-what-a-god-would-b_2533547.jpg)
![“I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related…” quote by Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f0/paul-auster-351_adulthood_i-thought-well-i-m-writing-about-early-c_2914480.jpg)
