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Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“In this course I have tried to reveal the mechanism of those wonderful toys — literary masterpieces. I have tried to make… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter.… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
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As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
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I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Renee: "You know what I did when I finished Moby Dick?" David: "You harpooned the guy that sold you the book?” — John C. Stipa Copy Share Image
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. — Peter Landin Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King Copy Share Image
Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
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I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
Life is like a book; Some friends are in there for a page, some are there for a chapter, but true ones… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
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Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
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“Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like "getting some" only on Valentine's Day.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
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You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
