I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
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The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I'm biased, but I think 'Jeopardy!' is the best game around, and getting more eyeballs on it is great in my book. — Brad Rutter Copy Share Image
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is a new book out about Hillary Clinton that claims Bill is still having affairs but Hillary continues to look the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
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University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and… — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the… — Rudrangshu Mukherjee Copy Share Image
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there… — James Payn Copy Share Image
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“In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.” — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
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It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book. — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started writing Shadow and Bone,' and my only goal was to finish a book because I had… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author. — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
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