I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation...

Shine forth your light before all beings.

Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation.

The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

I was downstairs, reading.”” Now?” I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared.”Yes, now,” she said. “It’s nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark...

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you....

Lo que nos hace personas normales es saber que no somos normales.

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright…Haven’t you ever happened to come across in a...

Finally! You’re here!”Uh….Do I know you?”Well, no….But you’re here, all the same…

If one book’s done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There’s that horror of the second novel that doesn’t match up.

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

The love for books is a paradise.

,Llorar es un acto egoísta?No, pero la razón lo es; llorar porque te duele a ti que esa persona ya no estará para escucharte lo es; es diferente si piensas en el hecho de que...

So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings...

The good thing about having our buttons pushed is that we can no longer ignore the sensitive areas where we need to heal.

I don’t even know what a room without books looks like.

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it’s another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don’t know what they’ve made until...

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy...

Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

I’m reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one...

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

it takes a village to build success in publishing a book – it takes friends that are willing to help – it takes hours upon hours of no’s to get to a yes, it takes...

People who make snide comments to authors like “anyone can write a book” or “well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can’t be that hard” or poke at a book because it’s “romance” or...

Every book has it’s destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins” The days of Childhood !!!!!

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, ‘Paint it this color!’

Beware of the person of one book.

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when...

A lot of people who read my novel ‘Smog City’ ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it’s because I’ve given them life. Not literally of...

That’s the thing: once it’s in their hands, it’s not my book anymore, it’s theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how...

Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good book, a good song, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest time.

I’d love a signed first edition of ‘City of Glass’ by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it’s fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I’ve healed very well.

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading — once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive — is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a...

I’m trying to convey to my audience that you really can’t judge a book by its cover, and there’s more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don’t see things the way we do.

As I see it, you GET married – but you MAKE a marriage.

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

…Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!

A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.

In the dark, neglected gutter running the length of a nearby secluded side street lies a small, lifeless bird. This is the blackcap – the unaccustomed northern nightingale – a creature with a charcoal greyness...

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

You cannot know what light isif you have not experienced darkness.How could you know what happiness feels likeif you know not what it means to be sad?Right does not exist without wrongHate exists because there...

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