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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
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One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic -… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Some of the books the Ministry’s confiscated — Dad’s told me — there was one that burned your eyes out. And everyone… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
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I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
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If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes! — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Rohn, Author” — Lorne Holden Copy Share Image
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected… — Rabindranath Maharaj Copy Share Image
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free. — Mohammad Hatta Copy Share Image
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
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I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead. — George Brandis Copy Share Image
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“Like his other books, Kershaw has written a rousing tale of little-known heroes . . . The Few marks Kershaw as a master storyteller." — Booklist” — Alex Kershaw Copy Share Image
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