The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969. — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
“I'd keep your beauty timeless. like a flower pressed in a book, yes I wouldn't let it fade Folded in the chapters… — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write another winning-on-the-field book or about modern-day leadership. — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“BARRY GIFFORD, Author of "Wild at Heart", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester: "Marisa Lankester's unique chronicle of high crimes and low… — Barry Gifford Copy Share Image
“I like authors who experiment with narrative and delve into very specific conditions within their characters in order to expose universal truths… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in… — Melissa George Copy Share Image
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
“I do not fear that "future generations will not read novels," etc. It is probably a complete misunderstanding to conceive of serious… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Look at it this way: if you were convinced that the world had forgotten how to think and teach, if you believed… — Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera Copy Share Image
My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch. — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.” — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Passion for books is the most important thing in being an editor/translator. Work with love.” — Listiana Srisanti Copy Share Image
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess. — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
When you go through a camp, you do a fight, you basically finish a chapter in your book. — Beneil Dariush Copy Share Image
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for… — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Expressing your thoughts and feelings to someone else is not as simple as writing it in a book. It takes courage. — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell.… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar Copy Share Image
Islam's biggest enemy is the Quran. If people learn what is in that book, Islam will be finished. — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“For my books, I do everything short of writing my own reviews. Those I do tall.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
