“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people's noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!” — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material. — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days. — Tony Ross Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Maybe every author needs to keep faith with Nabokov, and every reader with Barthes. For how can you write, believing in Barthes?… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky was writing about losers. The main character of The Iliad, Hector, is a loser. It’s very boring to talk about winners.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No name. No memory today of yesterday’s name; of today’s name, tomorrow. If the name is the thing; if a name in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“The Book: Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I got into history when I was 11 years old, and it all started with the Titanic. I'd read books in the… — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel and every day is a new page. so if a page is sad next will b happy..… — Thought Of The Day Copy Share Image
“Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press” — Caroline Bock Copy Share Image
Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books.… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Some Time We Fail To Understand The Feelings Of Very Close People In Our Life Because A Book Held Very Near To… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
The book Since the publication of my autobiography which was featured till today are moist — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
“And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A book that I would recommend for everyone: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” — Skloot Copy Share Image
“My book is awful,” I said. “Nonsense,” Dora J. Arod said. “Your book is nonsense.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
