I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Life is so encyclopedic, that even great knowledge giving books fails infront of it.. — Yashwardhan Pauranik Copy Share Image
For me, I wanted to write a book about getting into comedy. That's what I wanted to write. — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
“Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing figure of an unidentified Air Force… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK,… — Domo Genesis Copy Share Image
I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.” — Paula Gruben Copy Share Image
“I am grateful to every reader, whoever you are, wherever you are. Your time has been a gift.” — Amit Majmudar Copy Share Image
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. — Henry James Copy Share Image
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. — John Irving Copy Share Image
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
We are all authors of our life. Unfortunately we write them in pen so we can't erase our mistakes. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge." -"If you knew how little you had… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books. — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
