I wanted to write a book for children about animals that would be factual, different, fun and varied. — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
“ Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas… — Jesse Lee Bennett Copy Share Image
I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.” — Juliet Gauvin Copy Share Image
Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would… — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment… — Ann Schlee Copy Share Image
When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
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As I do with all of my books, I outlined The Beach House from the beginning to end. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If anyone ever wanted me to do Broadway out there, poopshoot readers, please think of me. — David Arquette Copy Share Image
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.” — Chandan Sharma Copy Share Image
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at… — David Grann Copy Share Image
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This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
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We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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