“What I love about reading cookbooks is that they are "clean pornography" for food addicts such as myself .. and quick and… — Janet Pole Copy Share Image
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“Newton’s declaration in book 3 of the Principia: “Nature is pleased with simplicity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
“I’m an open book—an open book I’m still writing and editing. My book is a romance novel, sort of like The Secret.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond Copy Share Image
“Lewis was a scholar and deeply spiritual man, so it is no surprise that all his characters have to face the complex… — E.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Do not fear the story you do not yet know or understand. Come to the Author of your life and the Word… — Patti Barone Copy Share Image
I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
As a child I'd sit at dinner parties with artists, authors and musicians, some of the best people in their fields. I… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“A good book should make you think at the end, not just give a solution to the problem at the end.” — Sydney 4363 Copy Share Image
“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Dear Momma―Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.” — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm very much a people pleaser, and the first book had such a devoted and loving following. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch… — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, when you look at the amount of comic book heroes out there, minority heroes are few and far between. — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Reading some books isn't enough for you to get what the meaning of life is. You need to explore yourself, cause life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
IRS all in my books getting they Matlock on. All this capitol it's like I left the caps lock on. — Drake Copy Share Image
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
