Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
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Arthur Hughes is one of the pioneers of modern database marketing. His new book, Strategic Database Marketing, Third Edition, contains the wisdom… — Lester Wunderman Copy Share Image
I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a difference between something being essential, and it being necessary. If you take your favorite book and strip it down… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I think a lot of awesome stuff is coming out with smaller presses. Small presses don't have to have huge board meetings… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
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Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
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A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
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I remember being a 12 year old art kid and feeling like there was no exciting art movement happening, especially for somebody… — Chet Zar Copy Share Image
Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I like to say that I always have a whole book in front of me. I write down the major beats, the… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
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Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
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