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I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I heard one woman say to another in the queue at a book signing: 'I shouldn't be buying this. He's a former… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
“You can’t go wrong by pricing your book in the middle of the road ($4.99–$7.99 for ebooks and $12.99–$17.99 for paperbacks).” — Honoree Corder Copy Share Image
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something?… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
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I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Eventually we even got to the point where we could disagree with [Bernard Leach]. I mean, when we first went there, gee,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
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I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
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Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. — Nancy Etchemendy Copy Share Image
Please don't judge me by what you hear or what people tell you. Cos, the truth is I am like a book.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm always worried about how fans of the books will react, but we have kept true to a lot of the books.… — Dominic Sherwood Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond — John Milton Copy Share Image