I don't think there will ever be a band that compares to Pantera. In my book, they are the icon metal band… — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
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In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
The handwritten pages make for fun giveaways. If someone reviews one of my books online, like on Amazon or Goodreads, they can… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
“This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
After I die..if I ever get chance to read the book of my life, I would start it from the page when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor.… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
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I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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