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My idea of a night out is actually a night in - in pajamas, with a good book or playing 'Mario Kart.'… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
Judging someone before you have gotten to know them is like explaining the contents of a book youve never read. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
I really like listening to books. I listen to them at twice the speed so I can listen to more books. — Poppy Copy Share Image
“And don’t bet on hiding anything for long; as Charlene Li, author of Open Leadership, notes, “There is information leakage everywhere.” — Tasha Eurich Copy Share Image
I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College. — Samuel Parris Copy Share Image
My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“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
During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic… — Valerie Estelle Frankel 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
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
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When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too. — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
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“Many of the characters named in this book existed, as did the shadowy order sometimes known as the Brotherhood of St. John… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
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No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
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