The Bible may be more than an ordinary human book but it's not less, and the same principles therefore apply in interpreting… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it.… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy… — Brendan Brazier Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone :… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I am an open book. It would be best if you only read my pages. Be careful when reading between the lines… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
“reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“There are things written concerning you in the book of life; that you need to keep opening, till you discover them and… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really,… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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