They tell you not to judge a book by it's cover. Why don't you freaking listen to them. — Andy James Copy Share Image
Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is… — Lindsay Hartley Copy Share Image
“It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
“Every book, every volume that you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
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“When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
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I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
“Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“The shape this book has taken reflects my belief that there is need to blow the whistle on the sidelining of personal… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Keep interested, read books, watch television and try to keep in touch with life and what people are doing, seeing and enjoying. — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
The comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick really uniquely tapped into Carol Danvers - not just her toughness and her power, but… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning.” — Pansy Schneider-Horst Copy Share Image
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun. — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Copy Share Image
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don't necessarily identify… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I wrote my first history book when I was four. I still have it so I can prove it. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image