“Why do I read? I just can't help myself. I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It's a very… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
I've always been aware of 'Spiderman' on the newsstands, but I never followed the comics with any great zeal, probably because I've… — Nicholas Hammond Copy Share Image
I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you're already going to like.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted… — Abraham J. Williams Copy Share Image
“RE: Lake George from a book by Lord. That's all I know. "There is something so perfect about the mountains and the… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero… — Maggie Shayne Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, since a good nature and the Holy Spirit were joined, he had to become a distinguished poet, and there is no… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm a comic book writer, so I work with a lot of artists. Sometimes, you get art back, and you're like, 'Oh,… — Tom King Copy Share Image
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
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