All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
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I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why?… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it. — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
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The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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