I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
“There comes a time, Younger," he says, "when the book must be put aside, and the pedal put to the metal. And… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them;… — Sahara Sanders Copy Share Image
“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My mom laid the foundation that in order for you to be successful, you have to take care of the books first.… — Robert Covington Copy Share Image
“"Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I'd be stuck… — Randy Susan Meyers Copy Share Image
“The central argument of this book is that there is a solid moral and practical basis for the laws against assisted suicide… — Arthur J. Dyck Copy Share Image
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
“Does my subjectivity shape the book? Of course it does, and that dynamic can be bad or good, or both! For example,… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“Dharma (Religion) is such a hidden thing that no one can know about it. Dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation) does not occur by going… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“A woman should be like a great book— the kind you can’t forget, long after the last page.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“In my book, water was only good for one thing...when I remember what that is, I'll let you know.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity,… — M. M. Mangasarian Copy Share Image
“Let's chow, and then we'll get our books," Tony said. Just as the door was about to close behind us, he added,… — Rebecca Maizel Copy Share Image
“I believe it’s fine to give up books even after a page; there’s so much to read in the world that will… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing. — Barbi Benton Copy Share Image
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
![“I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.” quote by Lena Dunham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/lena-dunham-1013_book_i-would-have-specific-books-when-i-was-1_1776182.jpg)
