Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
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I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
The way the housing market imploded is obviously not an easy thing to explain. It's a little bit easier in a book… — Kelly McEvers Copy Share Image
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Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
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The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
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A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
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Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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