Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a… — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
“The multiverse, she said, was like an old library whose shelves were packed with books arranged by a cataloguing system that ranked… — Paul J. McAuley Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions. — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact… — Willie Jolley Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied… — George Frederick Pentecost Copy Share Image
I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
It's that time of the year... No, not winter. It's the time for exams, and in order to pass I have to… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As a kid, my favorite book, up until 'X-Men,' was 'Avengers.' What does Captain America have? He has a shield. What does… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise… — Poggio Bracciolini Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“The story quilt in the novel was inspired by the magnificent quilts of Harriet Powers, an enslaved woman from Georgia who used… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“crooked head guided her eyes along the spines of Ludford's books, she was jolted back upright by the ringing of a phone.… — Adam Croft Copy Share Image
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages. Janice L. Jones” — Vicki M. Taylor Copy Share Image
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
“[Ulysses] appears to have been written by a perverted lunatic who has made a speciality of the literature of the latrine… I… — Aramis Copy Share Image
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“A book of the Indians (that is, Kalîlah wa-Dimnah) teaches that a scholar’s knowledge accompanies him and provides for him wherever he… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“I can close the book on this part of our history. I can start a new chapter, but it doesn't matter. because… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Stilletos of a frozen stillicide [...] In the lovely line heading this comment the reader should note the last word. My dictionary… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England’s Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast… — Peter Kump Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include… — Charles Rolls Copy Share Image
I'm biased, but I think 'Jeopardy!' is the best game around, and getting more eyeballs on it is great in my book. — Brad Rutter Copy Share Image
I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn't reading… — Michael Riedel Copy Share Image
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