I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
A bookstore has thousands of titles to sell. You need to be the guy the store attendant recommends to the reader. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told.” — Teresa Swift Copy Share Image
I was a real book person before my eyes stopped being so good. Now, thanks to the Kindle, I can read at… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to… — David Shapiro Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“This book would never have been completed without the help of a number of different people. Many of these people are listed… — Brinkmann, Ron Copy Share Image
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle--something heroic, or wonderful--that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find yourself digging around for something useful, and you don't necessarily know what it is until you find it. Sometimes… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
“It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access,… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss. — Christine Hanrahan Copy Share Image
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
Yeah I'm a fan of all the books and anything my mama cooks. Smallmouth bass have got me hooked. On Sunday afternoon. — Eric Church Copy Share Image
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Liberty is a spirit sent out from God and, like its great Author, is no respecter of persons.” — James Daley Copy Share Image
Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“this book really is interesting that a soon as I got it I couldn't stop reading it.” — Carolyn Hennesy Copy Share Image
Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I… — Dave Portnoy Copy Share Image
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
“The same way we don't judge a book by its cover, we shouldn't judge people by their looks.” — Eva Garcia Copy Share Image
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.” — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
“all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
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