I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Men feel safe and more open when they know that the woman they're talking to approves of their passion for a particular… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
“I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending - I mean the kind of ending… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. — John Donne Copy Share Image
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I were to write a book about my life, I swear it would be the best-selling book for the longest time.… — Monica Copy Share Image
My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same… — John Osborne Copy Share Image
“those who do read fiction are better able to understand the emotions of others.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in… — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
“Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Just for me - obviously, not all writers think this - but for me, I feel like seeing my book in Target… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.” — Geraldine Solon Copy Share Image
I mean, you don't get a chance to buy a company like Gateway, you know, at or near book value very often. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got… — Dorian Corey Copy Share Image
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I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image