I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“People who live without books are just living their basic life. They need books to live their life to the fullest” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff. — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles. — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)” — June Ahern Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls… Most of us assume there is something goodin every… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
“Tell me what you make of Locke, then, and his difference with Descartes." Vivian took the book from him and spread her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
“Her learning to sew (from a book Yankel brought back from Lvov) coincided with her refusal to wear any clothes that she… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“A book can take you to another land, even if just for a few hours. --Cat Spydell” — Cat Spydell Copy Share Image
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger.” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
“He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Books are where the ideas come from, though the ideas need to be simplified, reduced, submitted to ideological purification." ("Notes on the… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I made a wedding planning book and a whole double page is dedicated to the dogs. — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them" from the poem - STAY in the… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Life is like a book.each day is a new page.may your book be your bestseller with adventures to tell,lessons to learn and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience… — William James Copy Share Image
Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
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