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I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people. —” — Nina George Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Ed Byrne Copy Share Image
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book… — Ted Bell Copy Share Image
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It's quite interesting, looking back at the first one [film about Harry Potter], nobody knew whether or not it was going to… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“The loss of a great library to fire is a tragedy. But the surreptitious introduction of thousands of untraceable errors into reliable… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has… — J. Norman Collie Copy Share Image
I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
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If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want. — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly. — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Its sad how our story ended so fast, I remember perfectly how the chapter started, But I cant accept how the book… — ZomBeatz Copy Share Image
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
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For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own. — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
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I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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