I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they… — Shiree Mccarver Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader, This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known. I have made… — Kelly Gardiner Copy Share Image
There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“For those who wish to consider [...] that it may be necessary to expend a great deal of time and effort to… — Abraham Twerski Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.' Yes, that was the reason of his visit. It was the… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It is, incidentally, a favour that e-books have done for the Good Bookshop: they have made books beautiful again. A few years… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls… — SARK Copy Share Image
“They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
You should want to fight the biggest fights you can and so you could maximize your stature in the sport, on the… — Dan Goossen Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The theme of the book is simple: a man is dying: you feel him sinking throughout the book; his thought and his… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Recruit your pet as a study partner. Cats are usually more than happy to do this - in fact, you may have… — Stefanie Weisman Copy Share Image
Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think I've identified as an artist since I was a baby - literally a baby. I made a book of drawings… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
“In books we have the compendium of all human experience. We may use them or neglect them as we will, but if… — Sir Basil Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book… — William Everson Copy Share Image
“Like a junkie, I was jonesing for a romance novel coupling. I needed a pulsing pillar of passion, a mammoth mail member,… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported… — Autumn Reeser Copy Share Image
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