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The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I wrote "Win" for people on both sides, legitimately on both sides. If you're a Democrat listening to this right now, you… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
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I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
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The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
All forms of books make a valuable contribution to education and the dissemination of culture and information. The diversity of books and… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
Do not drop your tears on the ground, drop your tears on the book. Give it to the wrong guy and say… — Anthony Barger Copy Share Image
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
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Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
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If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
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I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
I have people who buy my books just so they can sit them around and show them off because of the titles,… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“It may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover," Daisy G. had told Blister just last summer. "But… — Susan Richards Shreve Copy Share Image
Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
