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I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and… — Alexandre Borovik Copy Share Image
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In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
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People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
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“[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“Then he discovered the library’s collection of agriculture books, which included works by Sir Albert Howard and Rudolf Steiner. “I read them… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
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When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions… — Ryan Grim Copy Share Image
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
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I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
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