The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
With a 660-page book, you don't read every sentence aloud. I am terrified for the poor guy doing the audio book. But… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I just noticed I've been writing lots of female-led things. Two of them haven't been announced yet, but the big Greg Capullo… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“I’ve read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just… — Katja Michael Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It's not unheard of, in the course of life, that if there's enough interest in it, we could consider going a second… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the… — Jon Polito Copy Share Image
Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
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“The Invisible Writer (Sonnet 2654) When I unveil a new book cover, you'd naturally assume that I know what I'm gonna write,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book.… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both… — Marshall Gregory Copy Share Image
It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective,… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because… — John Green Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
![“The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as one-sided or flat, and I knew that Mickalene's [Tomas] work would be able to encompass all the many states of being that are in the book.” quote by Morgan Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/006/morgan-parker-6193_able_the-book-there-are-more-beautiful-things_230543.jpg)
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