I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
All of the other books in the series... none of them are particularly like 'Ender's Game.' — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
“once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.” — Thomas King Copy Share Image
There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a golden. It could be anything-a song, a book, a pet, a person. Anything that makes you so happy your… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a… — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
“The club book was never intended to be light and titillated reading for the members. Its function is solely to acquaint those… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness.” — Anubhav Mishra Copy Share Image
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book. — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“You‘ve got your whole life to write your first book and six months to write the second one.” — Richard Lawrence Belford Copy Share Image
“Admire the habits and accomplishments of other authors, but not to the extend it depresses or distracts you from accomplishing your own… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
At the age of 19 I made a choice not to read anything that's written about me. I just don't touch it… — Daisy Lowe Copy Share Image
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
PLEASE BUY MY BOOKS, CDs AND DVDs. BECAUSE IT KEEPS FUNDING MY MATERIALISTIC ATTACHMENTS AND IT FEEDS MY EGO TOO. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have… — Mahbud Copy Share Image
