I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
The fact that there are still mainstream print media outlets willing to devote precious pages to book coverage at all is a… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“Countless self-help books, blogs and seminars promise relief from suffering, when pain and suffering are as much part of life as happiness… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“The Lance deHaven-Smith book Conspiracy Theory in America (published by the University of Texas) reveals that the phrase “conspiracy theory” was invented… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you are trying to discern whether God or Satan is the author of a hardship, one of your best clues is… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read… — Meg Medina Copy Share Image
Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I love to read, but I didn't know how I could keep up with my eyes, ... But I remembered that the… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The best and most exciting kind of love is the one that's so close to the heart and so real in the… — Movingnotion Copy Share Image
“Do you have any idea how many times I’ve read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to this kid? That is… — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“So, what do you go for in a girl?” He crows, lifting a lager to his lips Gestures where his mate sits… — Mark Grist Copy Share Image
A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jim purchased a brand-new book called How to Fix Damn Near Anything. In horror I discovered a $15.95 price tag on the… — Amy Dacyczyn Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength,… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“It is not the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she liked to read. The university’s “British and American… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
“He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that's his… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
“The little blue book was rattling around in my purse. I took it out and turned to the last thing he had… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
