With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
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It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
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One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
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The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Anselm Kiefer made a book for me. He was taking pictures of me and my friends when we weren't posing, just all… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something. — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
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We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
FAILURE is a single paper in a book of success... but, Sucess is tha whole book itself… So, Don't loose a full… — Sanjufago Copy Share Image
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
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I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
At a certain point people want to see other movies besides comic book movies so you have to be really careful what… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
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