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[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
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I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
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I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway… — Joe Root Copy Share Image
There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
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My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
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I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with… — Mohandas Gandhi Copy Share Image
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My little sister told me about the Twilight books and what a big fan she was. She said, "It's like Harry Potter… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
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I produced audio editions of 'Beneath' and 'Kronos' primarily to grow my audience. I'd seen it work for guys like Scott Sigler… — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
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There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“A: Is this the copy that you read as a kid? E: Yes. Look at the edges--that turquoise color. It's lighter along… — Ed Park Copy Share Image
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I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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