“The saddest people are those who talk about the books they could have written, the garments they could have designed, or the… — Ursula Markham Copy Share Image
Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important… — Tom Cavanagh Copy Share Image
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
“Each photo is like a novel I can never open, Gary had explained once. I can hold it in my hand and… — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“This is no way to treat a book,” he said. “Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Robert Byrne Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the… — Stephen Cole Copy Share Image
I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its… — M. Carey Thomas Copy Share Image
A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darnedest things in the margins of their books.” — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“All of my favourite quotes to live by are in my book, I wrote it for a reason” — Blake Joy Copy Share Image
If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.” — Andy Paula Copy Share Image
“I reminded myself that a beginning and an ending are two different places, and, in real life, you might be able to… — Stephanie Butland Copy Share Image
“If only I wouldn’t take this book so seriously. It is just a book after all, and a book is very dead… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them. — Yajur Veda Copy Share Image
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended… — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
I heard one woman say to another in the queue at a book signing: 'I shouldn't be buying this. He's a former… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
“Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.” — Barbara Bothwell Copy Share Image
“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image