Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty… — Ernst Jentsch Copy Share Image
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you… — Valerie Sherwood Copy Share Image
I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“My education has been so unwitting I can't quite tell which of my thoughts come from me and which from my books,… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
The best love story anyone could ever had written and had encounter is the one with God the author and finisher. God… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“the message at the core of this book: Working right trumps finding the right work—it’s a simple idea, but it’s also incredibly… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends’ parents — suggest to me that I liked books “with magic”… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“The books in the tote bag banged against her side as she pushed her bike, bringing her back to the present. The… — Jenn McKinlay Copy Share Image
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In Because, Joseph Riippi says he wants this book to be ‘a love letter, a prayer, a purge’ but it actually becomes… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying… — Sjon Copy Share Image
“OCEANA: Are we here to take a tour of the museum? Is this your surprise? ORPHEUS: This is my house. OCEANA: (gasps)… — Scarlett Brukett Copy Share Image
“Harvard professor Robert Putnam’s ground-breaking book Bowling Alone stirred the conscience of America in 2001, when he showed that we sign fewer… — David Timms Copy Share Image
If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
For Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he came to me and said, "I want to do everything that's in the book, and… — John August Copy Share Image
My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time… — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
“If it were really up to me, I would study literature and creative writting. I would major it it, if I really… — Molly Lynn Robinson Copy Share Image
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“You read Salinger in Italian? Molto chic’ ‘I was told a good way to learn a language was to read translations of… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
