It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him,” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf. — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.” — Molly Evangeline Copy Share Image
A child deserves love, affection, the chance to just play and do nothing, to sit under a tree, read a book, dream… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have… — Richard Fletcher Copy Share Image
It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
“Modern drug based medicine is as incomplete as a novel written with three vowels. As discordant as a symphony constructed using only… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
Writing the book was a pretty cool thing to go through, it really made me think of how crazy a journey it… — Julian Edelman Copy Share Image
“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination,… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
“A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
“The journey begins with you taking the first step. Sharlene R. Prince, The Royalty Mindset Coach & Speaker, Author.” — Sharlene R. Prince Copy Share Image
I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?' — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place,… — Carla Hayden Copy Share Image
“They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this… — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Love is like a book in the beggining it's simple middle it's complicated and the ending is everlasting — Dustin Barbadillo-aton Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
The importance of truth in books are just not want to see the false world the mirror of truth — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“He was sitting on a bench with his briefcase open and was surrounded by enough product literature to keep a paper-recycling factory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career. — Volker Ullrich Copy Share Image
“What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image