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Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have… — Luka Magnotta Copy Share Image
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Not everything that counts can be counted. You can count sales. You can count fans and followers. You can count pins and… — John Kremer Copy Share Image
Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
People stopping you in the street, though, is very different from being hounded by the press, which is the kind of attention… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
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The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“A book is a map … There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“My first novel was only a try-out,’ said David carelessly. The sort of thing every undergraduate has to write, but now I… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction.… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary.… — Ethan Gilsdorf Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
