It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
"The diary, "My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes… — Tom Riddle Copy Share Image
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We live in a screen age, and to say to a kid, ‘I’d love for you to look at a book but… — Marc Prensky Copy Share Image
The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm… — Jason Wiles Copy Share Image
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living.… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching… — Greg Weisman Copy Share Image
This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The book that blew the doors off the house, grabbing me with its breathtakingly deep and irresistible view of the universe and… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Before I started writing my album, I didn't tell people many things. But because I'm going to the studio every day and… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Let me begin with a heartfelt confession. I admit it. I am a biblioholic, one who loves books and whose life would… — Terry W. Glaspey Copy Share Image
The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish… — Pooja Subramanian Copy Share Image
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