I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
My first book is called 'The New Age Millennium: An Expose of Symbols, Slogans and Hidden Agendas.' When the book first came… — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried… — Ashley Scott Copy Share Image
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal… — Ariel Lawhon Copy Share Image
I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Solo me queda decir que amo a esta mujer más que a mi vida, y pase lo que pase, haga lo que… — Lolo Mayaya Copy Share Image
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat… — Siobhan Dowd Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case… — Siegfried Woldhek Copy Share Image
You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
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