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Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“I concede that a bad romantic novel is embarrassing and indefensible. So is a bad so-called realistic novel. (And it is usually… — Mary Burchell Copy Share Image
Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Once, she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, "That's enough." "Why?" "Because I've had it, it's always the same story:… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Looking out over the mezzanine to the endless shelves below, the girl couldn’t help but smile. She’d grown up inside books. No… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate… And I'd like… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“So, if we're to make any sense of the mess that the pharmaceutical industry - and my profession - has made of… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I didn’t do it to you, I did it to her. Maybe your past self thinks it’s funny.” “She doesn’t.” “That’s not… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“The trajectory of Exodus is unmistakable. When the book begins, the people are enslaved to a merciless despot who refuses to grant… — Shai Held Copy Share Image
Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a… — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
“A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint.… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
“Fatal Vision was a very successful book that a lot of people like, but the problem with it is that you could… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
We have a whole other division, where we actually literally take the comic book and animate it. Our feeling was that, if… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard of the book 'Freakonomics?' So there's these two economics professors, and they're really interesting guys, and they wrote… — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“I suppressed a sigh. Hungary felt increasingly like reading War and Peace: new characters came up every five minutes, with their unusual… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?” She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at… — Jill Barnett Copy Share Image
One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings -… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
![“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.” quote by C.J. Sansom](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/799/c-j-sansom-22985_accepting_have-you-ever-thought-what-a-god-would-b_2533547.jpg)
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