This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world.… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by preterhuman intelligence… — Israel Regardie Copy Share Image
I'm excited for everybody to see the books. In Justice League #15, there's a lot of other stuff too that's setup in… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I could stay depressed about my bad memory, but that's a negative way to live. Let's look on the bright side and… — Hirohiko Araki Copy Share Image
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother.… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders.… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
“It was my TBR-my TO Be Read stack. The usual subjects were there. Chick lit. Action. A Pulitzer Prize winner. A romance… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Books are a bad family - there are those you love, and those you are indifferent to; idiots and mad cousins who… — Elizabeth McCracken 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
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
I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“This is a book unlike any other on Barack Obama. It is not the typical effusive book of apostolic praise, but neither… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's… — Vince Carter Copy Share Image
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books.… — Nicola Formichetti Copy Share Image
We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so,… — John Middendorf Copy Share Image
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“While it may seem a bit antithetical to use quite so many "naughty words" in an etiquette book, I can assure you… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book;… — Paula Danziger 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
“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
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
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
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