It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Since we're going to dream anyway...DREAM BIG!" ~ Cindy Nord, Historical Romance Author” — Cindy Nord Copy Share Image
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books. — Amrita Singh Copy Share Image
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“Hindu fundamentalism,” because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no compulsory beliefs or rites of worship, no single sacred… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
“In his book "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift", Paul Rahe writes, "Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one. — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“And then he did move, because my hardcover copy of Breaking Dawn whacked him full in the face, with all my vampiric… — Helen Keeble Copy Share Image
I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You wanna fight you do it on your own time, in a parking lot somewhere, not in a school, surrounded by books. — Danny Mcbride Copy Share Image
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
