“You can “pants” your way through your novel, but you can’t “pants” your way to success.” — Bob Mayer Copy Share Image
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something. — David Harewood Copy Share Image
“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid of what others may think. Your creativity belongs to you, your inspiration, your imagination is all yours. Be passionate… — Sheila Renee Parker Copy Share Image
The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy,… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own. — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Oh what a feeling when you happen upon a book that seems to pour truth directly into your head.” — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies. — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We're always quick to judge an open book, sometimes it pays to read between the lines, a lesson to be learnt only… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
“So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of… — Jim McCann Copy Share Image
“I ripped the page from my book - "I don't speak, I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
The reason I have LGBT fans is because I'm an open book; they're attracted to that. — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When you come to another bridge in your life to cross, move on. Looking back, It's just a chapter in the past,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is in books,... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.” — Halina Lagarde Copy Share Image
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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