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Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
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I hope one day God will reveal all the truths to people that He has never sent any Holy Book, nor did… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
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There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it,… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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