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I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted'… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“Many books mean many teachers; many teachers mean many paths and many paths mean many wisdom and many wisdom mean many lives!… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“For a bit, he picked up the paperbacks, thumbed the worn edges. Military thrillers. Books with clear right and wrong where the… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“During my convalescence I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow. I remember after finishing the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
I had kept notes during my cancer treatment, but I wasn't sure what my outcome was going to be. A part of… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the… — William S. Knudsen Copy Share Image
My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment;… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image