519 quotes found
“The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!”
“Attitude Is More Important Than Talent”
“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”
“We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.”
“A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.”
“Big writers become a kind of shared climate.”
“Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.”
“The Imagination of the Mind is the Treasury that although liable to theft, never ceases to grow.”
“The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother's delusions. Now, I don't know about the true things or the not-true things, because there see...”
“Fantasy or fiction is just a persons secret life. A world they want to be in. The only diffrence between them and you, is that they wrote it down in detail, printed it and shared it with the world.”
“The life were given is on a thread, so wear it well.”
“He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....”
“I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to...”
“. . . All artists work is autobiographical. Any writers work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”
“Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wa...”
“There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!”
“How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers like ...”
“If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.”
“I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.”
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt ...”
