I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
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When I am playing, I try to keep the genre very easy-going and breezy. I can't be into the book and not… — Mithali Raj Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.” — Georg Lukacs Copy Share Image
Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Whatever your parents do, you get conditioned to that. I remember my dad would put gramophone record, and would sit and read… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
“According to Benedict's scheme, the community reads through... the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed... to all… — Richard H. Schmidt Copy Share Image
In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image