Arts Quote by Philippe Petit

I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies…

— Emily Rodda

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

— Alice Walker

Films gave me name, fame and money. But my heart always yearned for literature.

— Tanikella Bharani

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by…

— Hermann Goring

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

— Agnes Gund

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only…

— George Eliot

I wanted to live among books.

— Alberto Manguel

All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.

— Jenna Blum

I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to be 'alright',…

— Douglas Henshall

Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even…

— Gavin Friday

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a…

— Lee Child

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I…

— Sandra Lee