You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I… — Avi Copy Share Image
It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
“The major difference between a relationship and a novel draft is that you hae control over your novel's outcome.” — Jordan E. Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
I like working on action films, and I like working on movies that are comic book based, or that have this theme,… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I look at you and I see this amazing, beautiful thing. All these books and songs are written about people looking for… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
“The destiny of the Logos was not to be caged in a book or a doctrine but to be documented and unveiled… — François Du Toit Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a… — Sam Riley Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I picked up a book and I read. You can get something out of a book, even a bad book ...… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“When I am dead and in my head And all my bones are are rotten, Take this book and think of me… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is a closed Book until it opens to you. But once it opens to you, it opens up… — Benjamin Suulola Copy Share Image
My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“don’t expect a magic formula that’ll make books fall out of your head and automatically give you a wide readership.” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
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