'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
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
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
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
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read! — Floyd Cooper 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
In reality, I was drowning in negativity. I was stuck playing a part, too afraid to change, too afraid of losing my… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
“Necessary things for human life: fire, food, shelter (a home). Necessary things for plant life: earth, water, air (light). Necessary things for… — Katherine Swift Copy Share Image
It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The nice thing about e-books is that if you're sitting on the beach and you finish one Elin Hilderbrand novel and don't… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Satan doesn’t want you applying the principles in this book. He will do all he can to make you feel insecure and… — Steve Gladen Copy Share Image
“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story… — Sefi Atta 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
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I've heard of a guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under "Wizard",though that's probably a urban legend.” — Benedict Jacka Copy Share Image
To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong. — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset. — Li Yuanchao Copy Share Image
When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book. — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
“How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different"…” — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to be taking part in 'Hogfather.' I am a huge fan of Terry Pratchett's books, and to play the… — David Jason Copy Share Image
I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in… — Otto Frank Copy Share Image
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.” — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
“Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
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