The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending… — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't… — Laszlo Radvanyi Copy Share Image
“As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
One of the challenges faced by the little press like Little Island Press is as always, tricking people into buying books. I'm… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
“But sooner or later we find that not everything is to our liking in this book. It starts out sweet to our… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
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