“Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude.” — Salla Simukka Copy Share Image
“A printing press that can write its own books? A mind that thinks about itself? If I don’t have it, at least… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound. — James Dashner Copy Share Image
You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty early riser, so I'm sort of the queen of five A.M. I love getting up early. It's how I've… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I reach readers rather unintentionally, I think, and those readers likely connect with the slant, the off-kilter, the part of the road… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really… — Mike Rich Copy Share Image
There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it. — Freida J. Riley Copy Share Image
Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual… — Larry Gatlin Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“ Memories are like diaries of events' when you remember, it's like opening pages of a book; good memories linger on” — Olugbenga michael adepoju Copy Share Image
Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Hate spending money on books that I was planning on spending on alcohol this weekend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' is the first book that ever got me into reading. I had to read it in year 7, for school,… — Danielle Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Hope requires the contender Who sees no virtue in surrender. From the cradle to the bier, The heart must persevere. —The Book… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It's like being halfway through the book. I can't just throw it in the dustbin.” — John Fowles The Magus Copy Share Image
I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person. — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
“The judge said he was going to throw the book at me. I hoped it was an ebook in the cloud, and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Life is like a book. There are exciting parts, boring parts, happy parts, and sad parts, but at some time pages get… — Laura McDonnell Copy Share Image
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only… — Anthony Anaxagorou Copy Share Image
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
