They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“At some point though I need to stop cataloguing them or I’ll never get this book finished.” — Joe Cater Copy Share Image
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
“Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I'm a huge comic… — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do. — Jessie Cave Copy Share Image
“The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.” — T.A. Uner Copy Share Image
I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“do not look for me in other people. i do not exist elsewhere and when you meet another, do not… — Gretchen Gomez Copy Share Image
As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it… — Vicky Hartzler Copy Share Image
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“If we are using a running record as a pre-assessment to look backward and assess what the reader already knows, then the… — Clare Landrigan Copy Share Image
I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Help your child discover a new world, where magic can live on every page, BOOKS!” — Steve Altier Copy Share Image
“The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“taken. No wonder Tack insisted I bring The Book of Shhh; he left clues for me in it.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
“He read? Oh my God, guys that read were like unicorns. They only existed in fairy tales.” — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read! — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
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