The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I had to do was learn how to tell stories with my pictures. At first I didn't even know what that… — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book across her lap… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
“ireally think that the Book Life,After is the best book i've read this year because i really got into it and actually… — Sarah Littman Copy Share Image
Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a… — Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
“I read this book once that said we meet the people we need to meet when we’re ready for them. Maybe that’s… — Holly Jacobs Copy Share Image
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should… — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I was shocked that I even got the opportunity to audition for 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Meg Murry is a Caucasian girl… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
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