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If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING! (according to all book covers they're fantastic and… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
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I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
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This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry… — Barry Tompkins Copy Share Image
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One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
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I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.” — David A. Santos Copy Share Image
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty… — Denene Millner Copy Share Image
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The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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