“The number of diet books available to the public correlates to obesity rates.” — Clay A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings. — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“Readers often root for characters that are innocent victims – or who are subjected to forces beyond their control.” — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism. — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
“In The Ante-Nicene Fathers (8 vols.) the reader will find most of the writings of the Early Church under the Pagan Empire,… — George Hodges Copy Share Image
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The reader will have noticed that one no longer treats the siege of Troy as a myth. To do so would be… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
“There's a part of a book that never lies. A writer puts his soul into a book. Every word is two sides… — Sam Mills Black Out Copy Share Image
I loved the 'Lord of the Rings' books, 'The Hobbit.' And my parents, they still don't understand it because they hate fantasy… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book. — Navya Nair Copy Share Image
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best. — Maria Menounos Copy Share Image
I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Every book is different with it's own personality just like children. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person — Idk sorry Copy Share Image
“The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.” — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image