My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight… — John Milton Copy Share Image
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The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business… — Joseph Michelli Copy Share Image
As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again.… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book,… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
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