It is important as a mentalist to notice small things about people... little things such as being able to tell if someone… — Banachek Copy Share Image
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything,"… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is… — John Kremer Copy Share Image
You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how… — Janet McTeer Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“read this?" I asked. "Not that one, but like I said... I tried to prepare for this. We aren't doing this again.… — L.A. Starkey Copy Share Image
“What is that big book?" said the little prince. "What are you doing?" "I am a geographer," said the old gentleman. "What… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
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I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own… It would… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
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The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If they burn a book, have no worries. The book will feel NO pain so neither should you! True destruction of the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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