The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There will be another book, more stories, more life experiences, so I'm ready; bring it on! — GloZell Copy Share Image
“Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“There is nothing,” Naudé wrote, “that renders a Library more recommendable, than when every man finds in it that which he is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads… — Mark Pettinger Copy Share Image
The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“the public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature...A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody.… — Tom King Copy Share Image
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“By all means," said Richard. "Let's talk about something other than books. Something safer. Like politics or religion.” — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
I've sent thousands of emails - the conversations in the book are just the success stories. — James Veitch Copy Share Image
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I read pretty much every graphic novel I could lay my hands on. Not only 'Batman' or 'Daredevil,' but random ones like… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading… — Isaac Copy Share Image
Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
