Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers". — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
You remind me of a library book, because I always want to check you out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
An actor must read a lot. Books not only make one a good actor but also a better human being. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full… — Gareth Roberts Copy Share Image
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“I am more attentive to the script of a play when I read it than when I see it performed.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Leaders (Authors) are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. -Robert Jarvik” — Taylor Lee Copy Share Image
There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“That Tolkien also included in Roverandom words such as paraphernalia, and phosphorescent, primordial, and rigmarole, is refreshing in these later days when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Several families interviewed for this book recommended the oldest persuasive tool known to man: bribery. Each child is given some amounts of… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Just because you read the back of a book don't mean you know the whole story — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
