With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
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I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me,… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“This book is so huge, that the mythology took many months to create. There are literally hundreds of characters , and many… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
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I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books . Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I've always been an outsider. I grew up in an isolated house surrounded by three moats. There was no money. I left… — Amanda Feilding Copy Share Image
Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are.… — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading. By reading that book we may learn what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“The book as a structure is the Trojan horse of art - it is not feared by average people. It is a… — Walter Hamady Copy Share Image
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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