It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“This is not your mom’s fairy tale.' From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.” — Ashen Venema Copy Share Image
I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.” — Péter Esterházy Copy Share Image
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the voices of the past refuse to be silenced. Then all one can do is sit and listen. -Lex - Shiv… — Laken Cane Copy Share Image
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I was reluctant to talk about my kids on the blog. I kept telling myself, "People aren't coming here for stories about… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I really love folklore. I had read a lot of faerie folklore that informed the books I wrote. I also really love… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I've been asked before, "Who are your heroes?" and these types of questions. I always find it hard to identify a single… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
“As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library. As a college student I was… — James Michener Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of truth, but simply a book that attempts with as little bias as humanly possible, to understand… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest” — Alex St. Clair Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through. — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that … — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever… — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If you want to write books to get famous, the books will suck.Write books to tell the story you want to tell… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Day is the undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance. Her books are a luxury every woman deserves.” — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
“Books are like music. Everyone has their own taste and it's not always for everyone.” — Michael Benavidez Copy Share Image
“You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your conscience with those of her morally… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“My mission in this book is to shift the way you look at yourself, and to remind you of the power that… — Liz Ryan Copy Share Image
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It… — Jack Lasenby Copy Share Image
“When is talking about literature not an evasion of the real question at hand? Although a nice-enough evasion.” — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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