It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention 'outside' songs right through to about the middle… — Bernie Finkelstein Copy Share Image
She once said, 'I'm really a little prudish, which people may think incongruous'. I take a prudish point of view on certain… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is an entertainer. Okay. He goes on shows like Howard Stern's to get people to watch his program. "The Apprentice"… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I published a book earlier this year about Uber, the most common question I got about it was how many of… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“We are all poor; but there is a difference between what Mrs. Spark intends by speaking of 'slender means', and what Stevens… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Facebook, what book? Slutbook? They need to call this F-ckbook. Picture looking good, but in person¦Yuckbook. Hellbook, Tellbook, bitches cant Spellbook. Hate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
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