One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family. — Josie Bissett Copy Share Image
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist. He said that media had a responsibility,… — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
“Are you ready for me to read?” I took her outstretched cup and placed it on the bedside table. “I was ready… — Jenny B. Jones Copy Share Image
“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can… — Nicole Lapin Copy Share Image
“According to Benedict's scheme, the community reads through... the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed... to all… — Richard H. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We are the authors of our lives! We write in pen! We can't erase our mistakes but we can learn from them . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with… — Parker Young Copy Share Image
“I’m not what you might call a mystery. I’m pretty much an open book – Jake says I’m an audio book, because… — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The cover or jacket protects the book, identifies the author and title, and carries the blurb. The ISBN and bar code enable… — Giles Clark Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig Copy Share Image
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a… — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
