When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears:… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers. — Kirby Dick Copy Share Image
I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I wrote in my book, 'unPlanned,' about a church that kicked me out when they found out that I worked for Planned… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
“I'm done pretending you don't mean anything to me.That you still don't.I loved you.I love you now,here.The bone deep shit that you… — Shey Stahl Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“ The Resume Your resume is like an advertisement for you as a job candidate. It should present you in the best… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers who formed the United States Constitution had… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
After 'Bake Off,' I got these book deals that were very much baking books. But the books I'm producing now like 'Perfect… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions… — Malcolm Goodwin Copy Share Image
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“Don't write off a book (or person, or movie) just because it had a pink, sparkly cover.” — Abby McDonald Copy Share Image
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“People’s judgments, criticisms and power games won’t hit you as hard when your plan is greater than the assault.” — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book. — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that. — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is ‘White Fang.’ It’s so frightfully good… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I keep hearing from readers who say 'Hoax' helps them understand their own family a little bit better. — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
