I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader.… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
The really beautiful thing about each book of the Bible is that you can find God's love through each chapter because God… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself. — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
His mind was a library and I wanted to read all its books until I realized they were all about her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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MOVE ON… its just a chapter in the past but dont close the book just turn the page! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
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