No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“A printing press that can write its own books? A mind that thinks about itself? If I don’t have it, at least… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound. — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude.” — Salla Simukka Copy Share Image
I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“One, you're hiring Lee Nightingale and, girl, you know, that dude has had books written about him. They were fictionalized, but he's… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Sometime in life we as peoples make the peoples it can be bad or good but some talk about you with GOSSIP,… — Frenchqueen Copy Share Image
I am semi-ambivalent about being on camera - sort of low-key. I don't like being on camera stuff that much. I like… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I would rather have ten books I'd read again and again than a hundred books I'll never read.” — Jo Grix Copy Share Image
“I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur… — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
“If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun… — L.A. Jones Copy Share Image
“78. And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they… — Dr Muhammad Muhsin Khan Copy Share Image
“Judging books by their covers is seriously underrated, and any book nerd who claims never to have done it is probably lying.” — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The colors, the conversations, everything is much more vibrant and inclusive, as if opening a book releases genies trapped inside.” — Susan Crawford Copy Share Image
Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I felt I had to write down my observations about you in a book. And also for money, so you could eat… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
