I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
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We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Her eyes don't leave her book, but I see her smile. It's like the inside of my chest hiccups or something at… — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.” — Thulani Davis Copy Share Image
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“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
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“Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The meteors produce a loud momentary effect; we look up, shout 'see… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think when comic book fans hear parallel dimensions or multiple dimensions they think of Earth 616 and Earth 617 and Earth… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader,… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
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We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo. — Betty White Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I always dreamed about climbing mountains. I read every book about it. I formulated this plan to… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
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When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
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I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
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