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We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
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The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at.… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
Books of yesterday are often criticised as offering an unrealistic Pollyanna view of the world. But the grim 'realities' we are forcing… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite,… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
If I were just to read briefing books or I were just to engage in the political back and forth, would I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life,… — Revelation 3:5 Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
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Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
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