I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters.… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that… — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
“Battling the noise is creating a space for God and acknowledging the space He occupies, which is all of it. Invite God… — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work… — Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford Copy Share Image
I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if… — David Weber Copy Share Image
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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“This book is destined to make waves no matter which ocean you throw it into. This is the first book Jarod's put… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“Books are a place away from routine, a place associated with dreams and fantasies.” — The Gutenberg Elegies Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
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