“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book. — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it! — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. — Joe Sabia Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about the lack… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“I have read the Bible, it has a lot of different interpretations. It is a book of codes.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The only way you can be saturated with the thoughts of Christ is to saturate yourself with the Book that is all… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. — Stephen C Johnson Copy Share Image
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.” — Gladys Hunt Copy Share Image
I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I lived my life with alot of sin... I flip though the chapters of my f*$ed up past... I jus ripped tha… — CTate Copy Share Image
The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction,… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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“So let me emphasize the important thing: there’s no cognitive difference in reading a sentence in a print book versus a digital… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
I'd love to write a book called 'How to Raise a Virgin.' Seriously, I think a book about that would sell. — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
“set of ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON histories. They were all presentation copies from the author, with autograph inscriptions. The regret expressed” — Various Copy Share Image
“If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people. — Mario Quintana Copy Share Image
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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