When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“I love to read, but all through school I hated it when books were pulled apart and analyzed. Winnie-the-pooh as a political… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I had kept notes during my cancer treatment, but I wasn't sure what my outcome was going to be. A part of… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
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Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
When answering questions over the years about film and TV adaptations of my books, I have always maintained that no movie or… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“She was opinionated without being pushy. When choosing a book to read aloud, she would try to interest him in those spunky… — Barbara Wright Copy Share Image
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
“When I was Allie the Fringer, I used to collect books like this, from anywhere I could find them. Of Course, in… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Luke concludes the book of Acts with these words: “He [Paul] proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus… — David T. Olson Copy Share Image
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as… — Bryan M. Litfin Copy Share Image
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I’m living proof you can get past… — E.L. Montes Copy Share Image
We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In this short philosophical novel he completely undermined the kind of optimism about humanity and the universe that Pope and Leibniz had… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
“If creative fiction writing is a process of translating an abstraction into the concrete, there are three possible grades of such writing:… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Our Lord his book, the Bible is deep and broad. Great human minds have critically examined it, and thinking they have found… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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