Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“People who live without books are just living their basic life. They need books to live their life to the fullest” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)” — June Ahern Copy Share Image
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome.… — John Scott Copy Share Image
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest… — Greg Daniels Copy Share Image
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff. — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles. — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted. — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym! — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
“Adversity prunes the pages of growth and prosperity in the book of your life. You only have to determine how you shape… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." [ The Sick Chamber ( The… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
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