I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“Umit did not allow the books to read him. Nor did he allow the books to dictate his thoughts.” — Raj Doctor Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“Before his and Pushkin's advent Russian literature was purblind. What form it perceived was an outline directed by reason: it did not… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress,… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other… — Felicia Johnson Copy Share Image
“To enter into the prayer of this book is not merely to share the sentiments of King David, or Asaph, or one… — Patrick Henry Reardon Copy Share Image
In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I… — Joe Simon Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Pablo Neruda's poems tramped through the mud [with the fieldworker]...knocked at the doors of mansions...sat at the table of the baker...The shopkeeper… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio. — Juice Newton Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my lifeand, sometimes, to escape it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. — Heather Donahue Copy Share Image
“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.” — Thomas A Kempis Copy Share Image
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, “Referring to the church as a building is like referring to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some chapters sad, some happy, and some exciting. But if you never turn the page, you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
“Malaysians don't like to read. If you're reading this, you must not be liking it, or not Malaysian.” — Brian Yap Copy Share Image
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
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