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Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing? — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I am a museum curator when I am not on the television and in our collection at Kensington Palace we have a… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
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I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin.… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
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An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. — Bill James Copy Share Image
'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
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I missed you so much, she breathed. I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
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I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
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The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
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I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
![“I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.” quote by John Krasinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a6b/john-krasinski-4756_book_i-fell-in-love-with-the-book-brief-inter_460206.jpg)
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