And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
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Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading,… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the… — Clint Catalyst Copy Share Image
Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve… — Johannes Itten Copy Share Image
You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and they talk… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
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There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books… — Laurie Keller Copy Share Image
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
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I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
Be it a trip to the dentist, getting an injection or even coming home with a good report card, my reward always… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read.… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
My first short story, which you may find under the same title in booktracks. Do read it at your will and I… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
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