With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
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I was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
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I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books. — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
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They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
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I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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