... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again. — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
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I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
With toilet books, people don't review them that much. They don't really pay much attention to them. It's just like, "Oh, okay.… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
My relationship with Andrew JiYu Weiss has always been inspirational, his support and guidance always beneficial. My hope is that those who… — Claude AnShin Thomas Copy Share Image
The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
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Literature is the most legal drug of all. And the most peaceful way of escaping reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf. — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
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I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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