“What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Coraline had watched all the videos. She was bored with her toys, and she'd read all her books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to my brilliant and beautiful wife without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and consoles, never… — Albert Malvino Copy Share Image
Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“In his mind, the book, as much as anything in the world, was responsible for the wretched state of humanity—cowering and weak… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Comic book characters are characters who wear costumes. They're not necessarily different than other characters. The trend I think that you're seeing… — Amy Pascal Copy Share Image
They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“All stories come to an end. That moment when we sigh and close the book, perhaps sit back in our chair and… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We still write too many stories that are "state of the race" stories that are informed almost solely by what the polling… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
There's always a villain in every book, in every movie. In every story you have the hero and what he wants, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I read 'Booksmart' a couple of years ago, so I always knew that it was this wonderful project. — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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