Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
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Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
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My values are not based on violence. My values are based on courage, which you see time and time again in my… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
“We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or… — Melvin Burgess Copy Share Image
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in… — Scott Banister Copy Share Image
I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
You must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
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There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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