I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults -… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
In the university library, we know when a book has been used in a class or put on reserve... or while it… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as… — Rutina Wesley Copy Share Image
I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
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Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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