A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. — Edward P. Morgan Copy Share Image
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books! — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
“He flipped through the book as he ambled toward her. "Good God. There are whole pages of description. The roguish wave of… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
When I found out that Snooki got a book deal I was more confused than a blind lesbian at a fish market. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“Do I dare ask him for what I want, As if I knew it, Could find it on some page In some… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
“you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book to inspire young women to be brave and believe in themselves.” — Sherine Calloway Copy Share Image
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
I want to do a musical. I want to write a book. I have all these ideas and I can't get away… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' — David Grann Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Life beyond movies is a lot to me. My family, my friends, fitness, my music, books - just a combination of things… — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others. - Chris Geiger” — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I love him in a way I cannot define, as if my love were an organ within my body that I could… — Laura Nowlin Copy Share Image
“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this… — H.L. Stephens Copy Share Image
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases,… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely. — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
As I kid, I read the 'Little House on the Prairie' series and was sad when I got to the last book. — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
