“Assessment should not be about defining a reader but about piecing together information to help us design classroom experiences so we can… — Clare Landrigan Copy Share Image
It's the best motivation to have a particular beloved reader in mind! Because you feel this urgency that you really want somebody… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments,… — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I feel so much better having this book sitting on my cookbook shelf, just to help balance out the butter and cream… — ChiWei Ranck Copy Share Image
“...And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
“We block our conscious wants with beliefs. It's important to find them, with a psychologist, tarot, a book, whatever. That's how you… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you were a goddess, Cotswold?" Her maid, who had been pulling Eleanor's covers up the bed, stilled… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child. In my village-school days, I used to buy stealthily popular… — Wu Cheng'en Copy Share Image
For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know… — Laura Furman Copy Share Image
“books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I’ve never wanted to be an astronaut because of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon they'll have written the greatest novel known to man. Lets se,… — C. Montgomery Burns Copy Share Image
“And whereas you quickly forget most of what you read, Amazon will never forget a thing. Such data will enable Amazon to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Samuel Willard’s account of her afflictions, widely available in published form after 1684 in Increase Mather’s Remarkable Providences, almost certainly influenced the… — Mary Beth Norton Copy Share Image
“Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“I must warn you dear reader, that in this story both wonderful and terrible events transpire. It is also the sort of… — John Mark Green Copy Share Image
This is a giant undertaking, but I consider this a personal film. It's my film of a lifetime. I read the book… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
“This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Conceiv'd out of the fullest heat and pulse of European feudalism -personifying ill unparalleled ways the medieval aristocracy, its towering spirit of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
Think of a public library, worth more for those who cannot afford numerous books. Think of a public waterway or fishing ground.… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“I was sad that nobody had come to my party, but happy that I had a Batman figure, and there was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
I know I'm not going to book everything I go in on, and that's just the nature of the business. You have… — Rob Brown Copy Share Image
“Who hath a book Hath friends at hand, And gold and gear At his command; And rich estates, If he but look,… — Wilbur D. Nesbit Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
