Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me.… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
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In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969. — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
I think one of the ways you avoid being angry is to avoid being angry at the people in power. They might… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
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Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive,… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
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My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
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