It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on the island....Lord of the Flies what about it....You know how… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“Whatever it is that you’re feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?” — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“The question is not whether he read James, but which James he read.” — Michael S. Reynolds Copy Share Image
“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
In this wonderful book Stephen Buhner shows us that the heart is not a machine but the informed, intelligent core of our… — Matthew Wood Copy Share Image
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to turn on the TV, surf the Internet, pick up a book, or just simply exist without being bitten… — Bryan Baeumler Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
Our lives are books and each day is a page. We can't erase what has already been written but we can always… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.” — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
“To Moses We gave the Book and sent a succession of messengers after him. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear signs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Painting is feeling, never spoil it, Face is a book, try to read it, Love is precious, b ready to sacrifice for… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is… — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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