I have kept diaries, of course, but they can't be read for quite a long time. I'm always curious about people who… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched… — Ben Quilty Copy Share Image
When I was released by the Americans I read historian Trevor Roper's book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. Throughout the book like… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
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I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?"… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is no devious and dangerous life. I've lived a charmed life, especially in the last thirty years since I've started publishing.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama's former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing. — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For me specifically, after travelling around the world I noticed that performers who had web shows had huge international popularity and that… — Shangela Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT! — John Piper Copy Share Image
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I do a lot of research for my books. I can't possibly know all the things I write about and I love… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
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It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
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