Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a… — Joseph Patrick Pascale Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." The most importnant truth in… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
“ORIGEN: God cannot be called wise in the way that human beings are wise, because a wise man merely has a share… — Cindy Crosby Copy Share Image
All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I… — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It's read and study. And think about what you're studying. Take it… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
“Anyone who loves books the way Homer does, loves libraries, too. It doesn't matter if the library has fancy red leather chairs… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
“Ernest Hemingway, much like the Artisan hero in his novel, A Farewell to Arms, wanted to avoid figurative language (the language of… — David Keirsey Copy Share Image
A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered… — Tom Cardamone Copy Share Image
“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Everything in this book is mostly true but some details have been changed to protect the guilty. I know it’s usually about… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control--about who is snapping the whip,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm most proud of our son, having suffered several miscarriages before having him. As for the next mountain, it takes so much… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible’s narrative ingredients do matter for how… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“To be able to turn at will, in a book of your own, to those passages which count for you, is to… — John Livingston Lowes Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Landon Carter: [Reading from Jamie's mother book] Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or… — A Walk To Remember Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn't just read books… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
![“I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you…” quote by Judy Blume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81d/judy-blume-2002_bed_i-would-make-up-theodor-seuss-like-books_1648426.jpg)
![“All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/644/jean-paul-sartre-220_book_all-the-same-they-books-do-serve-some-pu_2133584.png)
![“Landon Carter: [Reading from Jamie's mother book] Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.” quote by A Walk To Remember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abc/a-walk-to-remember-34444_book-love_landon-carter-reading-from-jamie-s-mothe_1744643.jpg)
