Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
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“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
It is something wonderful when one can love another author. That happens so rarely, without any kind of misgivings that authors often… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“There are many things that men and women ought to think about, and must think about, in private, that they would not… — R.A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“These books can’t possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic.… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I am kind of different from most of the kids at my school. I hate gossip and… — AnnaSophia Robb Copy Share Image
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that… — H.O. Charles Copy Share Image
“Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The book jolted loose from her arm and fell to the ground. Opening her mouth to apologize to the man she'd bumped… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“Some books that were rejected multiple times, but are now famous, are J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Beatrice… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse "I don't know where to start" is no longer valid. Between the countless… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
“Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Paints a vivid picture of Jesus’ groundbreaking lessons . . . An impressively concise portrayal of Jesus as a moral philosopher [and]… — Oscar R. Nordstrom Copy Share Image
I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image