“We were like little torn pieces from a book. Only together would we make sense.” — Kailyn Lowry Copy Share Image
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind. — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
“Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it’s up to writers to change things.” — Tim Holtorf Copy Share Image
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on. — Brian J. Smith Copy Share Image
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
“REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Still, when I read the story, I felt like I'd written half of it myself, and the author guy was responsible for… — Victor Lodato Copy Share Image
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“He stopped and glared at her. “It’s a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It’s not an arrangement you nullify when things… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet… — Fae Sutherland Copy Share Image
“People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped" Author unknown” — Lynelle Clark Copy Share Image
“Every time I read a book, especially one that grabs my gus, there is another translucent layer added to what makes me,… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd… — Noureen DeWulf Copy Share Image
Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer. — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
Your skin isn't paper, so dont cut it. Your size isn't a book, so dont judge it. Your life isn't a film,… — Idk Copy Share Image
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Edgar Schein has untangled the paradox of being helpful in his excellent book Helping.” — Michael Bungay Stanier Copy Share Image
I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many… — John Barth Copy Share Image