“Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or "way," an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious—a changed… — Marcy Sheiner Copy Share Image
“No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book.” (p. 105).” — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A… — Sune Bergstrom Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I made a wedding planning book and a whole double page is dedicated to the dogs. — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
“I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Truly getting to know someone, then dating them for the right reasons and with hopes for a long lasting relationship is ideal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I very rarely watch classical adaptations, because they usually do very good books, and a lot of the things they do...… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
Way back before the 'Alex Barnaby' series was first published, we were talking with Dark Horse then about making it into a… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“reading a book, or remembering something I heard on the radio last week, or admiring the flowers on the table, I am… — Geoffrey Durham Copy Share Image
“- Dude, it's Jocelyn, I (Jordan) say looking over my shoulder nervously [...] - This isn't Jocelyn, B.J says sighing. It's Jordan.… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
“You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious.… — Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
