I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. — Mae West Copy Share Image
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are.” — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
We have a book that we just write down what the kids say. You forget...and when you read the book you remember… — Mark Harmon Copy Share Image
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it.… — Dorothy Atkinson Copy Share Image
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think there's a huge gap between no longer qualifying for benefits and being able to afford a life without benefits. When… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“This time Simone did not smile at all. "I cannot tell that to you, child. This is a secret I am not… — Leora Cika Waldman Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.” — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
“Hey, did you--" "Read your mind?" Osiris shrugged. "It's like an open book full of blank pages. Wasn't very hard.” — Rachel Firasek Copy Share Image
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. — James Geary Copy Share Image
'Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it… — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books. — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Every story is part of a whole, entire life, you know? Happy and sad and tragic and whatever, but an entire life.… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of the anonymity of being an unpublished author. I crave the anonymity of being self-published.” — Tristan Durie Copy Share Image
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Through the media of films, books, music and the behavior of elders, young minds are excited and aroused into indulgences. — Sri Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Stia totul despre literatura, in afara de modul in care se putea bucura de ea.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“Recognition is what you feel when a friend sums up exactly what you’re feeling, when an author gives you the right words,… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This book is its story, and mine. It is also yours. Because it won’t be long before the repercussions from this technology… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
