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Image of Sophie Kinsella
In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.
- Sophie Kinsella
Collection: Book
Image of Miley Cyrus
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I’ll miss them when they’re gone.
- Miley Cyrus
Collection: Book
Image of Milton Friedman
The true test of any scholar’s work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Book
Image of Bryant McGill
People are living books. The real library of life is community.
- Bryant McGill
Collection: Book
Image of Steve Martin
There’s a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.
- Steve Martin
Collection: Book
Image of Mary Oliver
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you’re working a few hours a day and you’ve got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you’re okay.
- Mary Oliver
Collection: Book
Image of Mary Oliver
You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world – and there are plenty – very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.
- Mary Oliver
Collection: Book
Image of Mary Oliver
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It’s early work, derivative work.
- Mary Oliver
Collection: Book
Image of Honoré de Balzac
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l’Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.
- Honoré de Balzac
Collection: Book
Image of Howard Zinn
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made – you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.
- Howard Zinn
Collection: Book
Image of Langston Hughes
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.
- Langston Hughes
Collection: Book
Image of Langston Hughes
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
- Langston Hughes
Collection: Book
Image of Alexander Pope
Heav’n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Book
Image of Plutarch
Books delight to the very marrow of one’s bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
- Plutarch
Collection: Book
Image of Erica Jong
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
- Erica Jong
Collection: Book
Image of Erica Jong
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean – then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
- Erica Jong
Collection: Book
Image of Erica Jong
I don’t necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I’m trying to finish.
- Erica Jong
Collection: Book
Image of Erica Jong
Women’s books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it’s a woman, she’s ‘spilling her guts,’ and it’s not art.
- Erica Jong
Collection: Book
Image of Tom Robbins
I would only read the novels that people classify as ‘beach books’ if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the ‘Book of Mormon.’
- Tom Robbins
Collection: Book
Image of Tom Robbins
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They’ll do everything except rotate your tires.
- Tom Robbins
Collection: Book
Image of Tom Robbins
I never outline. I don’t work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don’t know how it’s going to end.
- Tom Robbins
Collection: Book
Image of Erin Morgenstern
I don’t always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
- Erin Morgenstern
Collection: Book
Image of Erma Bombeck
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, “In Case of Fire, Throw This in First.” I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.
- Erma Bombeck
Collection: Book
Image of Erma Bombeck
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.
- Erma Bombeck
Collection: Book
Image of Alice Hoffman
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it – the information just disappears out of my head.
- Alice Hoffman
Collection: Book
Image of Alice Hoffman
I’ve been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
- Alice Hoffman
Collection: Book
Image of Alice Hoffman
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
- Alice Hoffman
Collection: Book
Image of Ulysses S. Grant
In politics I am growing indifferent – I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Collection: Book
Image of Umberto Eco
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
- Umberto Eco
Collection: Book
Image of Umberto Eco
My collection of rare books concerns only books that don’t tell the truth.
- Umberto Eco
Collection: Book
Image of Umberto Eco
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven’t read, that we haven’t had the time to read.
- Umberto Eco
Collection: Book
Image of Umberto Eco
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
- Umberto Eco
Collection: Book
Image of Umberto Eco
Naturally, everything depends on one’s background books and on what one is looking for.
- Umberto Eco
Collection: Book
Image of Umberto Eco
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn’t visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
- Umberto Eco
Collection: Book
Image of Umberto Eco
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
- Umberto Eco
Collection: Book
Image of Umberto Eco
If somebody writes a book and doesn’t care for the survival of that book, he’s an imbecile.
- Umberto Eco
Collection: Book
Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Collection: Book
Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Collection: Book
Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Collection: Book
Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Collection: Book
Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Collection: Book
Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
You know, I don’t think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn’t. Probably because I don’t want to start thinking, “Am I popular?” I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Collection: Book
Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
By and large books are mankind’s best invention.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Collection: Book
Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Collection: Book
Image of Daniel Radcliffe
If you like the book, you’ll hate the movie.
- Daniel Radcliffe
Collection: Book
Image of Daniel Radcliffe
I’m the only kid in the world who doesn’t want an eighth Harry Potter book.
- Daniel Radcliffe
Collection: Book
Image of Molly Harper
I’ve never done this before. I didn’t go to human bars. Mudslides aside, I’m not much of a drinker. Club people are not my people. Now, book-club people –.
- Molly Harper
Collection: Book
Image of Stephen Colbert
When I read books it’s to escape. It’s so I don’t have to talk to people.
- Stephen Colbert
Collection: Book
Image of Stephen Colbert
I’ve always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can’t judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?
- Stephen Colbert
Collection: Book