After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
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The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
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Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
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I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
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The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
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The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty. — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
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The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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