Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“It is sixty-six books written by forty authors, written between 1446 B.C. & 90 A.D. But, now we discover that it is… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“You can “pants” your way through your novel, but you can’t “pants” your way to success.” — Bob Mayer Copy Share Image
I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Vi?" Jag's soft voice called from the other room. I'd been soaking so long, the water in the tub was cold. I… — Elana Johnson Copy Share Image
We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“My blissful childhood was shattered without warning when I was about ten years old. One day, my father told me that he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(this is before we're living together, before we do the most faithful act of all, mix our separate books into one library)” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator. — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
I really wanna throw a book at someones face and be like, I Facebooked you! — Melania Copy Share Image
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I don't mind running with turtles. From book: stuff I think about By Sondra Faye” — Sondra Faye Copy Share Image
“I think once an author is attacking people for leaving Amazon reviews, common sense has shut up shop and gone home, and… — K.J. Charles Copy Share Image
“Eleanor—“I plan to stay up and read for a while.” “Are you still reading Pamela?” Eleanor asked the doctor. “Volume two. I… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
What to Expect When You're Expecting' was gifted to me by my best friend Antara, a new mom herself. The book helped… — Koel Mallick Copy Share Image
“The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the… — Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…” — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Hope knew that her thinking regarding books went contrary to the general sentiment of the people of Eden. Books were seen as… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“His words put an ache in her heart. She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever.… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double. . . — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Nobody knew literature and history better than these people, nobody could write better Russian than they, nobody despised our times more profoundly.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image