“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Any book, old or new, that claims to hold all the answers to life, is a scam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly. — LeBron James Copy Share Image
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.” — Ann Mullen Copy Share Image
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book. — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My fantasy would be somewhere very sunny, where I'm not burning and I've had lots of sleep and read lots of books. — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
“The best man. You know? He hands you the ring and has to marry the bride if you ran away and so… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“My greatest desire is that the reader will understand that the events involving Israel and Middle East are rushing toward a conclusion.… — John McTernan Copy Share Image
“Music expresses both in lyrics and in tune something of the orientation of the composer and author as to what the truth… — Robert Godfrey Copy Share Image
Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image