One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should… — Bobby Orr Copy Share Image
You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
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Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
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I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
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Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell.… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was:… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking in any big thematic or conceptual terms - especially in this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] when I was… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
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