Be it a trip to the dentist, getting an injection or even coming home with a good report card, my reward always had to be a book. I didn’t care much for anything else. – Sonam Kapoor
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. – Simon Armitage
Generally a chef’s book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. – Sally Schneider
My first book was poetry, but I didn’t write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. – Tao Lin
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. – Stanley Kubrick
When I’m working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project’s lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles. – Warren Ellis
‘Pride and Prejudice’ – perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book – is engrained in our literary consciousness. – Seth Grahame-Smith
I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing it. Then I just sit down and I start. I hit the go button. I have an outline, which is 70 pages, but I don’t look at it. I never have to look at it. – Stephen J. Cannell
I don’t think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book. – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I think with one exception I’ve never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. – William Gibson
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special. – Veronica Roth
Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in ‘New Moon.’ Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right foods and a lot of it. But also, reading and studying the book and my character over and over and over again so I could have his character down as well. – Taylor Lautner
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven’t been before, show me sights I haven’t seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before. – Therese Fowler
When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. – Veronica Roth
Wagner’s philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn’t written a single word against Jews. Wagner’s book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century. – Zubin Mehta
It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution… fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive. – Sonny Mehta
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. – Umberto Eco
I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was ‘Winesburg, Ohio’ by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing. – Tom Drury
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. – Toni Morrison