I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers… — Dorothy Gish Copy Share Image
There are things I'll never talk about for sure. My life is an open book, but there's always a few secret pages… — Jessica Mulroney Copy Share Image
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You can read a lot about a person by their features and what they do with them. But, getting to know someone,… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
My mom was a model and she would show me her old books, and it was so cool. She would tell me… — Sistine Stallone Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“I love what Sarah Young wrote in her book, Jesus Calling. She wrote it as if God were speaking: Make Me the… — Tina Samples Copy Share Image
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started… — Charles King Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
As a parent I know how challenging it can be to identify the right books and how rewarding it can be when… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I love my characters like family and cannot wait to share more of their story with readers. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera. — William Klein Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
After my first book, I figured that since it was successful, I wanted to continue things better. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“different genres. To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion… — Dale Mayer Copy Share Image
In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
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