I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
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Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
I think 'The Book of Mormon' has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It's something that 20 years… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
You and I are not Muslim, because we are born in a Muslim family. You and I are not Muslim, because you… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
Over the years, my books have been given a lot more credence than they should. I don't think people should take them… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
If I can avoid doing freelance work, I prefer to. Not just because it takes me away from drawing comics, but also… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
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Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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