Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
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We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
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This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
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We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
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I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
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I've heard some writers say things like, 'Well, I'm a professional writer. I only start books I know I can finish.' I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
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Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
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