“If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together,… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
“We must find a balance between "reddish whites," "bluish whites" and "yellowish whites," and decide on the proper length and thickness of… — Kenya Hara Copy Share Image
Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
“But no matter how I tried to get into the book I was reading, it wasn’t working. Half of it was the… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home -… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
Failure Is A Single Paper In A Part Of Life. But Success Is A Book Of Your Own Biography.. Don't Loose A… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it,… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get… — Frida Farrell Copy Share Image
All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
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