Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads… — John Green Copy Share Image
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“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
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I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“(these are my highlighted parts of the book) Not human, thought Maura, as the hairs stood up on the back of her… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But sometimes unexpected things happen that can rouse an old memory, something seminal, a past event so momentous and strong that, like… — Steve Duno Copy Share Image
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
“I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“In fact, because tone is never entirely reducible to a reader’s emotional response to a text or reducible to the text’s internal… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
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Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I love what Sarah Young wrote in her book, Jesus Calling. She wrote it as if God were speaking: Make Me the… — Tina Samples Copy Share Image
We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started… — Charles King Copy Share Image
I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
After I was cast, I decided to read 'Sharp Objects'. I ended up drowning it in sticky notes, highlighter and pen. It… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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