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Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter,… — Brian Falkner Copy Share Image
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Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
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The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“There she sits in the corner of the carriage—that carriage which is travelling, not from Richmond to Waterloo, but from one age… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the earlier novels, Steve King tells us that John Farson, and perhaps even the Crimson King himself, are but other names… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
I took to saying, 'Look, tell you what: Pick it up; open it anywhere. Read three pages. If you can put it… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know their times tables off by heart, to perform long division… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
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I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
Books I like: John McPhee's 'Coming Into the Country,' Michael Herr's 'Dispatches about the Vietnam War,' and Evan S. Connell's 'Son of… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
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