When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
When I'm at home, I get what I need to get done during the day and reward myself with a little 'WoW'… — Lights Copy Share Image
I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons. — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success,… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
With your eyes going sleepy, close your books, shut down your computer and walk towards your bed. Wishing you a very Good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Never name a ship after your wife in one of your novels, then sink it in the next chapter...” — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time,… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
