“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
“So much has happened since the first publication of The Six Sigma Way, and it has been rewarding to find that much… — Peter S. Pande Copy Share Image
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations. — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue… — Colleen McCarty Copy Share Image
If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience. — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a… — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No matter your faith, or lack of it, the ultimate goal of this book is to help you grow closer to God,… — Kyle L.B. Morey Copy Share Image
When you are not there in my life its like: Shoes without shoe laces A letter without a stamp A flower with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And… — James Jeffrey Roche Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
