...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
There are things I'll never talk about for sure. My life is an open book, but there's always a few secret pages… — Jessica Mulroney Copy Share Image
I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers… — Dorothy Gish Copy Share Image
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is my hope that when a reader chooses to suspend their reality for mine, that it will be time well spent.” — Sharon Van Orman Copy Share Image
In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“GGMM Nightingale isn't just for iPods or MP3 players but also for a lecture or novel listening, or take notes from a… — GGMM Nightingale Deep Heavy Bass Earbuds Headphone Copy Share Image
The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Our interpreting the universe as an artifact absolutely requires that we posit an author for it, or a celestial fimmaker, dramatist, painter,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
My preferred genre of reading is crime thrillers - books by Harlan Coben, Jo Nesbo, David Baldacci, James Patterson, Ashwin Sanghi and… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“So, the rationale of having written this book is to say an inspiring word to a lot of people who are hurting,… — Boniface Sagini Copy Share Image
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh,… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
“Books rose to the ceiling, which rose to a point, with ladders that leaned against the walls.” — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“If it is in your heart, write it. And if it is in your mind, share it. Someone, somewhere, will be inspired.” — Julia Skyler Copy Share Image
It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film. — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line. — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“Bravehearted Musings Seated, lost for where to begin (not how to begin) this book gets birthed” — Wambui Ngabura Copy Share Image
Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort! — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“And she is the reader who browses the shelf and looks for new worlds but finds herself.” — Laura Purdie Salas Copy Share Image
“All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because… — Isabelle Rowan Copy Share Image
I don't want people to judge books by their cover, I want people to be open minded to the rest of the… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
If you steal from one author, its plagiarism; if you steal from many, its research. — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
Im going to compile my favorite after this crazy shit... some of these are fuckin amazing.. can someone say coffe table book? — Joel Zimmerman Copy Share Image
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