“Book of Revelation frequently described objects in groups of seven to symbolize the seven “chakras” or energy systems in the body.” — David Wilcock Copy Share Image
Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. — Howard Aiken Copy Share Image
After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man -… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. — Giorgio Baglivi Copy Share Image
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living. — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
“I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren’t flawless and chances are they are not… — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
“When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images. — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
“Find someone who has the life that you want and figure how they got it. Read books. Pick your role models wisely.… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“I knew personally many figures in this novel: Harold Urey, who greeted me at the grad students reception at UCSD in 1963;… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
He's like a book I miss read because I wanted a happy ending instead. I wanted to believe that you would never… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more. — David Moranis Copy Share Image
While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better. — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Writing is about you. Publishing is about the book. Marketing is about the reader.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
