You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will... →
Robert Jordan
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists... →
F. Sionil Jose
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joseph Joubert
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
Milla Jovovich
Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on... →
Graham Joyce
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we... →
Rachel Joyce
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been... →
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
Tony Judt
I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.
Heidi Julavits
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung