Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.
Bill O'Reilly
A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
Tim O'Reilly
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral... →
P. J. O'Rourke
It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize:... →
Peter O'Toole
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for... →
Joyce Carol Oates
If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader... →
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you... →
Tea Obreht
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow... →
Ben Okri
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y.... →
Sharon Olds
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter -... →