My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Mistakes are often made to learn a lesson; but if you keep making the same mistake; what lesson have you learned? You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe, just maybe, a reader would feel a little less alone in the world.” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“In her book, Ask Outrageously! my friend Linda Swindling suggests to “Mimic the body language of the most powerful people you know.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread. -Henry Stevens (Posted on Twitter by @FSG_Books Farrar,Straus&Giroux” — Henry Stevens Copy Share Image
I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
“Well, each interpretation of an event, setting or character is unique to each of those who read it because they clothe the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore"… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The phone book shouldn’t be arranged alphabetically, but by height. Guess how tall my love for you is. That’s right—taller than Goliath!” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you. — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You use the intonation of the peasants. Is that taught in your books?” “I knew an Eyllwe woman who taught it to… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“My job is never boring," Staples said. "There's nuts-and-bolts stuff like getting the tarpaulin over the shaft when it rains, and so… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
