You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Flatland was a great book...Edwin Abbot. I gotta say, I went nuts over A Brief History of Time, the Stephen Hawking book.… — Seth Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
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It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive.… — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
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I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
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Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to wander around… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you? — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
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He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
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Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought… — Valerie Bertinelli Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli": "According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies." ” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. — Carlos Drummond de Andrade Copy Share Image
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