I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I just see in pop culture, music, visual art, books, etc., a real hunger for the new and different, and I think… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“The birders I encountered in books and in the world shared little in common except this simple secret: if you listen to… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
“She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, when you look at the entire literature on animal-assisted therapy, patterns begin to emerge. Of the different animals used in therapy,… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
“I ain't a lover, but I want to love all your crazy imperfections, I ain't a diver, but I want to dive… — Hareem Ch Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“He Was Lucky The old man leaves his house, carries books. A German soldier snatches his books flings them in the mud.… — Anna Świrszczyńska Copy Share Image
Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we… — Eric Anderson Copy Share Image
“Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Not all guns have to be fired. A pistol is just a tool and where I am living is not a story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
When I finish a book, I'll go to that file and look through them. And I'll say, these are three that really… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Anyone who is truly crazy, in my book, wouldn't be able to understand the dialectic of crazy and not-crazy. Listen, I've worked… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“About the new saga of Camp Half-Blood, Percy continues to narrate the book? Rachel (the new Delphic oracle) will remain on the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
It's different to read a book for pleasure than to read it analytically. In the past, I'd read Pride and Prejudice for… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“Anyone getting starry-eyed about owning a bookstore should ask herself a few questions: Can you lift a box weighing fifty pounds? Do… — Wendy Welch Copy Share Image
... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into… — Moya Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Around three a.m. he feels a presence in the room. He sees, for the pulse of a moment, a figure at the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It's really, really eclectic. It's not a business book [Girlboss], but it's still a book that should make you want to get… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
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