“We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.” — Yashvardhan Shukla Copy Share Image
'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data… — Marjorie Scardino Copy Share Image
“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like… — Shay Mitchell Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
There's a book of interviews with John Cage by Joan Retallack called Musicage that was finished the summer that he died, in… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, “I know… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library,"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia,… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous. — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided… — Naomi Mitchison Copy Share Image
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in… — Carice van Houten Copy Share Image
I know I'm not supposed to judge a book by its cover. I don't wanna be in the blind but sometimes I… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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