A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It… — Ken Hom Copy Share Image
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I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think I sent one [book] to Brian Eno. I don't know how I got to know his address, but I sent… — David Toop Copy Share Image
People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there's only one book, even if they… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young,… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
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In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
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“The best description of this book is found within the title. The full title of this book is: "This is the story… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with… — David Bach Copy Share Image
So many book sections in newspapers and magazines used to be lively and vibrant places. Now they are gone. You just don't… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
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There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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