Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I took the speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
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“An Afternoon in the Stacks Closing the book, I find I have left my head inside. It is dark in here, but… — William Edgar Stafford Copy Share Image
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee. — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
I am an avid surfer, collector, reader, movie buff and am very health conscious, so I work out all the time and… — Bruce Buffer Copy Share Image
Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase — Sergei Dovlatov Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I loved maths and read lots of books and was horrified at the idea of having a… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me! — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the… — Leslie Parrish Copy Share Image
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“We did live in dire poverty. And one of the things that I hated was poverty. Some people hate spiders. Some people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs. — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
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