I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
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Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
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I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Calling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
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I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
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It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
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I'm not a really big comic book person. I know the typical ones - 'Spider-Man' and 'Wonder Woman' and 'Storm' and that… — Christian Serratos Copy Share Image
To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
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