He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
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Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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“Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions:… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As a little kid, I was never one to follow the crowd. I didn't want to run around playing games all day,… — Alex Pereira Copy Share Image
I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Our book will absolutely reflect all those core themes of identity that the 'Ms. Marvel' comics have consistently explored - only now… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
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It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She… — John Green Copy Share Image
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What… — John Green Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I knew everything about her backstory. I skimmed through all the books and read through everything that happened between Sam (Chaske Spencer),… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
“The tendency, which exists wherever industrialism is well developed, for trusts and monopolies to control all industry, leads to a diminution of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
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