I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ... — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
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To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it. — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
The 14th-century poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' wasn't my top read at university. In fact, I finished it under some… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
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“I tried to read Handmaid's tale, really I did, but every time I opened the book, I recalled the movie from 199… — Margret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have an ancient, insanely detailed book by Sir Henry Cotton. It's from a different era, yet it teaches all the same… — Paul Casey Copy Share Image
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book… — Charles O. Rossotti Copy Share Image
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One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
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