J.R. Moehringer quote: "I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?"

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people deter...
WALTER LIPPMANN

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
REBECCA SKLOOT

I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE

I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN

Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE

I hope people understand how stupid segregation is. People should never judge a book by its color. B...
EUGENE RICHARDSON

In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting...
CHRIS KYLE

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cor...
CECELIA AHERN

You know, I once read a book about people who practiced polygamy. One man with several wives. Crazy....
KIERA CASS

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people i...
ERIN CUMMINGS

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ...
G. K. CHESTERTON

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, w...
RAOUL VANEIGEM

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man wh...
ASHISH KUMAR

You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried ...
CALVIN KLEIN

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man w...
G.K. CHESTERTON

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man wh...
G.K. CHESTERTON

In my defense, I love the book in a postmodern kind of way where I've always sensed that it contains...
CAROLINE KEPNES

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you coul...
BOOTH TARKINGTON

This book is about inspiration. It's about hope. It's about dealing with failure. Dealing with setba...
CARL MCNAIR

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dre...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN

I have no idea whether anyone will have any desire to read it. Will people who don't know me at all ...
JUSTIN TUSSING

People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how...
JOHN BARNES

I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the ...
PER PETTERSON

This book is about a real-life female baseball player who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
ANN COPPOLA

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's ...
JAMES BADGE DALE

Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a...
BILL OWENS

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and ab...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Big Moo is a book that's not just about breaking all the rules -- it's about changing the game e...
DEAN DEBIASE

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'...
ERIC BROWN

I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and...
PATRICK DEWITT

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.
JAMES ALTUCHER

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other peo...
PETER MCARTHUR

War is always seductive, ... 'Full Metal Jacket' didn't make me want to join the Marines. I already...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

War is always seductive, ... 'Full Metal Jacket' didn't make me want to join the Marines. I already ...
ANTHONY SWOFFORD

The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do....
JACK WHITE

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's ...
NEIL GAIMAN

My books don’t narrate about delusions that people with unusual or forbidding looks should be trea...
IGOR ELISEEV

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER

What makes BPD different from any other personality disorder is that your anger and impulsiveness --...
DOUG FERRARI

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the h...
JOHN WATERS

I liked that the book brought von Braun to the surface. People didn't know much about him. He was a ...
WALLY SCHIRRA

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work o...
STEVE ALBINI

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an ex...
KHALED HOSSEINI

This isn't a security story. This is really a story about how the music industry is dealing with its...
ERIC HEMMENDINGER

Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a polite...
C. JOYBELL C.

The book is about following the rules. And after I read the book, I let each of them come up with a ...
ALICE WHITE

People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing t...
RICHIE NORTON

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about po...
SMILEY BLANTON

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes ...
STEPHEN KING

I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT

The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know ...
VIKRANT PARSAI

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think a...
ERIC BOGOSIAN

We don't say anything about the book unless somebody asks. But if people ask, I'm certainly frank ab...
ALLAN KELIN

This story is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover t...
CECELIA AHERN

Argentina is still a big factor in markets' behavior. People are worried about Brazil's currency and...
CARLOS HOKAMA

It's a common ploy to plant people in chat rooms who suddenly say, 'Oh, I've got to tell you about t...
WANDA STOY

There are, out there, some perceptions about what business training is, and they're not always posit...
JACK BRITTAIN

It's one thing to support the Wright Amendment. It's another thing to support shutting down your hom...
SAM JOHNSON

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the ...
TIM O'BRIEN

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and al...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, ...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic boo...
JOSS WHEDON

Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group...
JIM BUTCHER

What I like about vampires is what I like about everything I want to write about, the depths and hei...
TANITH LEE

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and o...
QUENTIN BLAKE

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book...
JEFF LEMIRE

I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I alway...
JAMES HETFIELD

I do wish that reviews were less like book reports. There was an era when reviewers had something to...
MARCUS SAKEY

When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

Students should attend this event to learn about Greek life. Greek life is about more than parties a...
CAROLINE ROSS

Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this bo...
RYAN FITZPATRICK

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any br...
MIKE DAVIDSON

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA

Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'...
WENDY DAVIS

Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and k...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.
OSCAR WILDE

[In her devastating new book,] The Year of Magical Thinking, ... cut loose any fixed idea I had ever...
JOAN DIDION

This election is not about friendship but about who can do the best job of leading New York and brin...
DAVID DINKINS

[It is an appropriate symbol of the dedication Richardson has shown to young artists over the past 2...
FRANK SKINNER

For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly e...
TA-NEHISI COATES

I grew up with those MGM musicals, so I have an idea what I like from a musical. It helped to read a...
STEPHEN FREARS

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each o...
DARIN STRAUSS

Our silence in the face of the horrific abuses that are taking place on a daily basis in fact are ca...
JAMES ZOGBY

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. ...
ANTOINE FUQUA

For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo...
GEORGE W. S. TROW

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and yo...
DONALD MILLER

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clo...
BETTY SMITH (WRITER)

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its p...
RICHARD LIVINGSTONE

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