Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better. — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“handgun literature overall doesn't report much statistical difference in "stopping power" between 9mm and .45 ACP cartridges as along as quality HP… — Col Ben Findley Copy Share Image
I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath.… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Turning the pages of a favourite book creates a very special bond with our grandchildren, but it's not just an indulgent pleasure. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Maybe our lives are like imperfect novel. Novels that would get very mixed reviews. — MEG WOLITZER Copy Share Image
“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
“At least Anne Frank,” Comrade Snarky said, “never had to tour with her book . . .” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers… — John Green Copy Share Image
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a… — John Wain Copy Share Image
If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty. — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
“She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
“She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“one begins to read between the pages of a look, the shape of sleepy music and suddenly you're hooked ...” — lyric from a Jefferson Airplane song Copy Share Image
“If you judge me negatively, as you would a book by it's cover, you'd be surprised by what you see written on… — Rick Ferreira Copy Share Image
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
