I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.” — William Fritz Copy Share Image
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think… — David Small Copy Share Image
I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not… — Thomas Spence Copy Share Image
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
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