I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
When I became a photographer, I took Mums talent for granted. She would take pictures out the car window and then they… — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?" "What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes,… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what is insidious about the Disney Princess, besides the fact that if you look into their merchandise, the 26,000… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
All forms of books make a valuable contribution to education and the dissemination of culture and information. The diversity of books and… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like… — Dagur Kari Copy Share Image
A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“But if I can keep my mind on these pages I don't have to care. I can make this all just go… — Andrea Portes Copy Share Image
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“have u ever read a book or a novel that is so interesting but very difficult to understand it and it doesn't… — Agnes Ramere Copy Share Image
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two… — Celine Buckens Copy Share Image
I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardom immediately, because I get to enjoy… — Brittany Curran Copy Share Image
In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership. — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
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