“The best friend you can have, is one who is there always for you.If lucky you have one or two human onces… — Miroslava Rozman Novakovic Copy Share Image
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“ God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
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I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it.… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V.… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“mother's love of books and spent a great deal of time outdoors, where she grew up independent and free spirited. Nature became… — Sandra McLeod Humphrey Copy Share Image
I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
“The 4:8 Principle is a book about thinking differently, about thinking in a way that maximizes your potential for joy. Because most… — Tommy Newberry Copy Share Image
“Being only twelve, Klaus of course had not read all the books in the Baudelaire library, but he had read a great… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
We get the scripts before the table read, but I don't look at them until we go into the table read. I… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
One way to read the Book of Mormon is as a book of encounters between fathers and sons. Some of those encounters… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The theory is that Mariah Carey can sing anything. You hear that expression, 'She can sing the phone book.' So if you… — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
“She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
