...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human rights groups around the world, certainly sees that Saddam Hussein makes Slobodan Milosevic, who is a war criminal, look like a… — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
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I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
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Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“But I may also be afraid. I am afraid. I have already read it. And, not to lie to you, I liked… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies! — Katie Leclerc Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important… — Tom Cavanagh Copy Share Image
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
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