“I was reading a book about the cosmos recently,” he says, and then he looks around and goes, “Hold on, trust me,… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother… — Marly Youmans Copy Share Image
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You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too.… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
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“I am part of his story. I am the epiphany of God. I am a character whose life events have a purpose… — Ben Palpant Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
“Diane Tracy, author of Ten Steps to Empowerment, recommends the following process for empowerment: 1-Tell people what their responsibilities are. 2-Give them… — Marsha Evans Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“if we want to read an old book, perhaps just as it was read on the day it was written, we cannot… — Joshua D. Broggi Copy Share Image
Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It brings a smile to my face every time I look in the record book and see my name with the likes… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
“This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“In my book, if you want to be treated like an old person, you have to look like one. That means no… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“No, Charles Tansley would put them both right in a second about books, but it was all so mixed up with, Am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As he learned more from his father in school he was led to reading every book he could find as long as… — Sam Wellman Copy Share Image
My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“On Ira Gershwin: I remember when he was given the manuscript of a novel written by a woman friend who had hopes… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I could easily pen an entire novel on why I love this city, and believe me, I am a lifelong advocate of… — Maneet Chauhan Copy Share Image
I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“...in all my writings I have always tried — how far successfully I know not — to advance the cause of Truth… — R.M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Lord, help us root our feet to the earth And our eyes to the road And always remember the fallen angels Who,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Theory sometimes seems to me a way of taking revenge on literature—the critic masters the text and rewrites it in his own… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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