Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books. — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“she pulled herself out of depression by escaping into the other worlds books offered.” — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“The following tale is a fantasy, pure and simple. It is a flight of sheer imagination. It contains no hidden meanings, and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“You cast another bewildered look at the books around you (or, rather: it was the books that looked at you, with the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Today ,two guys in my math class saw my scars. My sleeve rolled up when I took the book. I think they… — Shmoopy Copy Share Image
“Do you always travel with such cumbersome books?" "I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.” — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“In its published form, this book is being read, I assume, in the first years of 2000 A.D. (1935 plus eighty or… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“You could say we run a dating service. If you make a request, we can hook you up with some books that… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life a book that we are not allowed to read before living, but only to anticipate what is written one, three, maybe… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you gone start something finish it, never close a book without finishing its chapter. — Alyssa Tillmon Copy Share Image
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.” — Melodie Ramone Copy Share Image
“The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I prayed for her to leave so I could breath again. I prayed for her to buy a book so I would… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
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