“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to… — Flea Copy Share Image
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
“He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul… — Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
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I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It makes it easier to adapt a book that is popular with kids because of how excited they are about the project;… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
[Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential… — Jean-Philippe Toussaint Copy Share Image
“They should let some people into the library by prescription only. For serious, books about architecture are Denny's pornography. Yeah, first it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
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…a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
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What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a… — Adam Bellow Copy Share Image
Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists.… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
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In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
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