Through my writing Im gonna changing the world, just when I find special readers !! — Alyaa Copy Share Image
“I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it. — La La Anthony Copy Share Image
Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom — Robert S. Jepson, Jr Copy Share Image
Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else:… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“In the book “The Blind Side” they are talking about the most important job in the NFL (Lewis). The most important job… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing what people create using their pain. Work that is touched by melancholy has its own unique beauty. Even the word… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“In the library I was handed a blueprint on how to live the mysterious, unnamable, big dream life I wanted. I was… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“books: Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, Encyclopedia Brown, and later, anything with even a passing mention of sex in it: Judy Blume’s… — Ivan E. Coyote Copy Share Image
I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“…We feel different things. We like different things. It’s like they say with books, no two people ever read the same book.… — Fox Benwell Copy Share Image
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“AUTHOR: Appealing to an emotion is rather irrational. THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: True. But Odinists know the irrational can be a source of… — Mark Mirabello Copy Share Image
“It was wrong, but sometimes you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelette.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. — Vicesimus Knox Copy Share Image
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.” — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing. — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
“The titles at the head of each book were prefixed, not by the authors, but by the early transcribers.” — Robert Taylor Copy Share Image
“If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it... - It sounds horrible... so write don't read your… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Every human has a book inside them hidden, you just need to be awakened enough, to see it.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. — Iain Lawrence Copy Share Image