The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. – George Gissing
So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: ’10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He’s a lawyer.’ He didn’t know what was going on. He didn’t even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I’m dating their dad! – Hoda Kotb
I have a private press. I’m a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it. – Gloria Stuart
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book. – Helen Dunmore
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. – Groucho Marx
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. – Helen Keller
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence. – Gregory Maguire
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. – Greg Iles
Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon. – Henry B. Eyring
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, ‘It’s gonna sell.’ I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before ‘Tell No One.’ I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement. – Harlan Coben
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories. – Haruki Murakami
The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don’t get credited in the book. – Graydon Carter
If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I’ve worked in coffee shops. I’ve sold clothes. I’ve hosted TV shows, and now I’m acting. – Hannah Simone
‘The Great Gatsby’ is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. – Henry Rollins
With my first book, ‘A Letter to a Young Brother,’ I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me. – Hill Harper
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, ‘I’m OK, no worries!’ – Gillian Flynn
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book. – Hilary Duff
The ‘Room 93’ EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on – at that time – 19 years of me forming relationships with people. – Halsey
Now, I – for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. – Helen Garner
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I… probably can’t! – Hugh Grant
The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first ‘adult novel,’ Lucy Maud Montgomery’s ‘The Blue Castle.’ – Hallie Ephron
What is the luck of the draw that me – me – who finally writes a book, it comes out in the – in the – in the time, in the center of the first pandemic, H1N1? And I’m going out on signings, and I’m going out to the public. This is the one time when I need to be hermetically sealed. – Howie Mandel
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don’t do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it’s due October 1. – Harlan Coben
‘Coraline’ is Neil Gaiman’s book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film. – Henry Selick
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there’s no longer the merchandising aspect. – Grant Morrison