Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk,… — Julie Gregory Copy Share Image
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
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Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely. — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
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The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.” — Kate Evangelista Copy Share Image
There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. — Richard Heber Copy Share Image
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A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature. — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
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If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says. No, Olivia, just one." How about four?" Two." Three." Oh, all right, three. But that's… — Ian Falconer Copy Share Image
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
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