What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction.… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
“My first novel was only a try-out,’ said David carelessly. The sort of thing every undergraduate has to write, but now I… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Let us define our terms. A woman who writes her lover four letters a day is not a graphomaniac, she is simply… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Growing up, I always had a journal – whether it was a marble composition book or a pretty hardcover journal—I reached out… — Sandra Proto Copy Share Image
“For us the true measure of our wisdom will never be the grade point average we covet, a degree or rank, the… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
“PREFACE This is a book about writing as a spiritual practice. This is not a book about spiritual writing. Spiritual writing—inspirational writing—has… — Rami Shapiro Copy Share Image
In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
“It is sixty-six books written by forty authors, written between 1446 B.C. & 90 A.D. But, now we discover that it is… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.… — Seneca Copy Share Image
I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“there has never been such a plethora of advice on looking good. We are constantly bombarded with diet books,.. and there are… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s seventy years in the future and you found this book in a stack of junk being used to block the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
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
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
