There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
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Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue, you sell him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
My first taste of theater was my middle school play. We did 'The Jungle Book.' I auditioned for Mowgli, which I didn't… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them.… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
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My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
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I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
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I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal-- — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just… — Tim Rozon Copy Share Image
I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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