He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
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I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
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I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me… — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
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Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
We knew that we wanted TheHunger Games to be PG-13 because she wrote the book for readers 12 and up, and we… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
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Because I wrote a book about Goldman Sachs. And I know that, from talking to people at Goldman Sachs, that Trump is… — William D. Cohan Copy Share Image
But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
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