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I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
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Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Same old boring boring story America can’t stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
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I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“In my own academic field, it is much easier to get a doctorate in biblical studies if you do a relentlessly left-brain… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People"… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
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I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the… — Derek Theler Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period… — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little… — Maurice Thompson Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
As far as comic books are concerned, I was always a Marvel guy for the most part, although I did follow DC… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
A writer writes a book. People read it. You don't know what they're reading, really. You read a review and think, "That… — James Salter Copy Share Image
There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me.… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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The purpose of any military is to kill people and break things. It's not to advance anybody's social agenda. It's not a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
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