I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
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The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
The fact is that we wouldn't have found out about Manzanar except in our story-telling because it was really never told in… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one – more popular than the Celestial Home… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"...… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
I sometimes think to myself, you're not going to meet a new friend of any kind at home in front of the… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars.… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
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Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
The handwritten pages make for fun giveaways. If someone reviews one of my books online, like on Amazon or Goodreads, they can… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
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