The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my… — Curt Schilling Copy Share Image
I love books, letters and texts visually as objects, and textually, for their content. The same book I write serves a different… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“I’ve read The Book of the Law. I must be slow. I cannot make heads nor tails of it. Every time I… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who has produced my earlier films, is still a part of 'PK' and is presenting it. He is not… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the… — Julie Halpern Copy Share Image
Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
Women from fashion magazines, they hate other women. They like to tell other women they are ugly and often it works. Women's… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker."… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
The discovery that we can program our existence and author our own lives has radically altered my life - transforming my identity,… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
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“It's the whole country that makes or breaks a thing like this. New York has very little to do with it. Now… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Everybody's lookin for God everywhere on the outside. He ain't in no book, and He ain't in no preacher, and He ain't… — Ron Hall, Denver Moore Copy Share Image
For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Since my student days, I'd been a fan of those books with titles like 'Great Speeches that Changed the World,' as I… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
“We get heroes with impossible abilities and heroines with strengths we can only dream of. And for a little while, we are… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge) Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
“She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence,… — How It All Began Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
