I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. — John Updike Copy Share Image
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There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Maybe you're not such a monster, Mr Zombie. I mean, anyone who appreciates a good beer is at least halfway okay in… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.” — A.P. Fuchs Copy Share Image
“Nita drank her tea, watching Roshaun read while he maneuvered the lollipop from one side of his mouth to the other. The… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“You are my favorite book. I immerse myself in your story and fall in love with each page. I will never be… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book to fill a blind spot in our history, to remind us that outsider amateur game-makers creating personal games… — Anna Anthropy Copy Share Image
“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth … for then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do. Joshua 1:8” — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished. — Erro Copy Share Image
In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
“I’m working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.’ ‘Hasn’t someone already written that one?” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!” — Veronika Carnaby Copy Share Image
“I must say this book is rather boring. I picked it up because the cover was pretty, but the story was bland” — Andera Copy Share Image
“I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil? — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Author Edward Johnson neatly labels such cop-outs as the pussyfooting passive.” — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
“Science speaks in equations. Sufism speaks in silence. This book lives in the space between.” — Neşe Sedetmen Copy Share Image
Many books that tell you how to achieve come from a privileged position. If you can't see yourself in the advice, how… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead,… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.” — Magus Tor Copy Share Image
