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Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
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But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end… — Ernst Bacon Copy Share Image
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Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
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Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
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I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Flatland was a great book...Edwin Abbot. I gotta say, I went nuts over A Brief History of Time, the Stephen Hawking book.… — Seth Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
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If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types'… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image