When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“Wealth protects and animates art and literature, as the dew enlivens the fields." Nonsense! Wealth animates art and literature, as the whistle… — Various Copy Share Image
There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and… — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often. — Spencer Krug Copy Share Image
“this book will teach you three powerful lessons: how you can minimize the odds of suffering irreversible losses; how you can maximize… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of… — Christopher Mintz-Plasse Copy Share Image
“The White House is a character crucible," according to Bertram S. Brown, M.D., a psychiatrist who formerly headed the National Institute of… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“When we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
“you see book is like a machine if it don't have gas it can't start just like our brain without book we… — Kelly Elysee Copy Share Image
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
“Barrons Books and Baubles had been ransacked! Tables were overturned, books torn from shelves and strewn everywhere, baubles broken. Even my little… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“So what? What difference does it make?” How should this concept be applied? Is the biblical writer applying his idea? Where does… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture:… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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