Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in… — Christopher Penczak Copy Share Image
In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Yes, Charles Yu names his main character after himself. That main character, in fact, is both time-machine repairman and author of a… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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“Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to… — Scott Tracey Copy Share Image
I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense,… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business… — Jonathan Reckford Copy Share Image
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
…there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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“One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the… — Murzban F. Shroff Copy Share Image
Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective.… — Dave Kellett Copy Share Image
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about.… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
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I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with. — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
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Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
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I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
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I read a lot and some of the things I read are blaxploitation books, things by Donald Goines or Iceberg Slim. The… — Too Short Copy Share Image
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
![“I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist…” quote by David Ebershoff](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/53d/david-ebershoff-29756_art_i-must-say-a-few-words-about-memory-it-i_2971298.png)
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