Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion.… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
If everyone in your class has heroes, and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
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“The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
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This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101'… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
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“You and I are from two different worlds." "Nonsense. We have much in common. We both like books, dogs, poems, Sir Walter… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
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...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on… — Melissa Anelli Copy Share Image
Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
After President Obama took office, his campaign book 'The Audacity of Hope' receded into his past fast. Its sweet, naive, bipartisan 'let's… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting… — Melvin Burgess Copy Share Image
The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary… — Judith Skelton-Grant Copy Share Image
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced… — Richard van der Riet Woolley Copy Share Image
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You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Copy Share Image
I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
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