I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
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I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while,… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
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The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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When I ask candidates to tell me about their weaknesses, I am hoping for a wise, honest, and self-confident answer. When I… — Eric Sink Copy Share Image
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy.… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
“The readings required of every Confucian scholar. The Four Books are: The Analects, The Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and… — Issai Chozanshi Copy Share Image
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
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In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book! — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book. — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
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The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
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I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
You have a book like 'The Shining,' where the hotel is scary - but scarier because it's the haunted house of Jack… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Book Everything is Flammable is an odd format though, not quite a diary and not quite a memoir. I was working on… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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