I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
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[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that… — John Green Copy Share Image
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I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome.… — Johan Galtung Copy Share Image
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But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Who are these evil ones? In 1984, the evil one was called Goldstein. Orwell was writing a grim parody. But these people… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
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I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf.… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to move on and put that chapter of life in the past. Dont close the book, just turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
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What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
What's going on in Russia is not that the public is homophobic, but that the Kremlin has unleashed a war. You don't… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
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