Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“Though I could agree with him that Miss Gamache had a good heart, I couldn't read her book without wanting to plunge… — Joe Keenan Copy Share Image
“Dear Delphine, When you are older I want you to find Chinua Achebe. I want you to read Things Fall Apart. Don't… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
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I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share Image
I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White… — Alyssa Mastromonaco Copy Share Image
“Secondhand books are haunted, according to him. Ghosts in the pages.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Valentines Day does not exist in my book. Every year it sucks the same. It is all about gifts, love is jut… — Jenna Bognar Copy Share Image
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
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