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Image of Cormac McCarthy
He said that whether a man’s life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Book
Image of L.M. Montgomery
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be – to me in all events – a terrible thing without books.
- L.M. Montgomery
Collection: Book
Image of L.M. Montgomery
There is a book of Revelation in every one’s life, as there is in the Bible.
- L.M. Montgomery
Collection: Book
Image of Justin Bieber
I luv the book first step to forever by justin bieber.
- Justin Bieber
Collection: Book
Image of Charlotte Brontë
The word book acted as a transient stimulus.
- Charlotte Brontë
Collection: Book
Image of R.A. Salvatore
I didn’t and don’t go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
- R.A. Salvatore
Collection: Book
Image of R.A. Salvatore
Whenever you’re writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic.
- R.A. Salvatore
Collection: Book
Image of R.A. Salvatore
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn’t excite me and didn’t even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
- R.A. Salvatore
Collection: Book
Image of Sarah Dessen
I don’t talk about my books while I’m writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel’s about until it’s done.
- Sarah Dessen
Collection: Book
Image of Sarah Dessen
I have SO many books I didn’t sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you’ve devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.
- Sarah Dessen
Collection: Book
Image of Sarah Dessen
I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I’ve already done. So it’s a challenge to keep it fresh.
- Sarah Dessen
Collection: Book
Image of Sarah Dessen
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won’t let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.
- Sarah Dessen
Collection: Book
Image of Sarah Dessen
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there’s so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
- Sarah Dessen
Collection: Book
Image of John Steinbeck
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now – only that place where the books are kept.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Book
Image of John Steinbeck
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can’t take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: Book
Image of George W. Bush
We’re supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.
- George W. Bush
Collection: Book
Image of George W. Bush
I don’t read books, but I have friends who do.
- George W. Bush
Collection: Book
Image of J.R. Ward
A book unopened alters not the ink on it’s pages.
- J.R. Ward
Collection: Book
Image of Shel Silverstein
I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That’s great. But for them, not for me.
- Shel Silverstein
Collection: Book
Image of Dorothy Parker
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn’t take on any other terms.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Book
Image of Dorothy Parker
I’m of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Book
Image of Dorothy Parker
It’s easier to write about those you hate – just as it’s easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Book
Image of Dorothy Parker
His books are exciting and powerful and – if I may filch the word from the booksy ones – pulsing.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Book
Image of Dorothy Parker
I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Book
Image of Dorothy Parker
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Book
Image of Nora Ephron
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...
- Nora Ephron
Collection: Book
Image of Kiersten White
I hate the vamp jobs. They think they’re so suave. It’s not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me: vampires? Not. Sexy.
- Kiersten White
Collection: Book
Image of Bill Hicks
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who’ve helped me.
- Bill Hicks
Collection: Book
Image of Bill Hicks
You’re not a human till you’re in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.
- Bill Hicks
Collection: Book
Image of Sherman Alexie
Okay, so it’s like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all of the books ever written, it’s like you’ve read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you keep on learning so much more you need to learn.
- Sherman Alexie
Collection: Book
Image of Gustave Flaubert
Haven’t you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you’ve had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?
- Gustave Flaubert
Collection: Book
Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Collection: Book