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There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing. — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
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I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books,… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
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I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
I realize that this is not what you want to put on a cover with Wonder Woman emblazoned on it. She could… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
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That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
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I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
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What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
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One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. — Franklin P. Jones Copy Share Image
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I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a… — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them,… — Ann Packer Copy Share Image
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