Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths?” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had once read a book that said a traveler should always have one and it made a lot of sense.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“I remember when I left Hungary," Zoltan said, "understanding so completely that literature could save me as much as it could get… — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself -… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious.… — Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If you have five weeks to write an episode of television or seven months to write a movie or several years to… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Oh how silly weve been! We should have stroked them! Why didnt we guess? Really witty, giving us books that try and… — Draco Malfoy Copy Share Image
I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people. — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
“I never knew book were important than anything even humans until i discovered that books are straight forward why humans are unstable.” — Oladeji jeremy Copy Share Image
“The sound of a crackling fire going in the fireplace, a nice warm blanket and a good book is just about heaven… — E. Leighanne Grimm-Weever Copy Share Image
The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Together with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is an indispensable witness of the doctrines of Christ and His divinity. — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book? — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“Enjoyment of literature is achieved only by reading without expectation but with anticipation.” — David McDonald Copy Share Image
When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
“I always rip out the last page of a book. That way, it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.” — The Doctor Copy Share Image
“From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.” — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter! — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
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