My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
I read 'Booksmart' a couple of years ago, so I always knew that it was this wonderful project. — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different… — Bubba Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem,… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
My Saturday nights now consist of me being buried in books, highlighters, and briefs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted… — Stephen Livingston Copy Share Image
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs. — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee! — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only… — Peter James Copy Share Image
“if philosophy is mountain climbing then literature is an anti-gravity parade I love thee like a leper colony loves to make a… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
“I had spent a great deal of time in the library, getting lost in the worlds created in books while avoiding the… — Annette K. Larsen Copy Share Image
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“the core christian values- radical hope, universal forgiveness- are the core values of the book's final chapter.” — John Green Copy Share Image
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
“Human are the open books of the past, the machine of the present and an undisclosed technology of the future.” — Ricky Saikia Copy Share Image
“Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?"… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND DINOSAURS… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
