I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the… — Burt Ward Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
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“Nowhere is the sense of medium felt more strongly, even by the casual reader, than in a story about to end. For… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I won't read a new graphic comic novel until the writer has completed the entire series. I got burned a few times… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to… — Mike Davidson Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump… — Florence King Copy Share Image
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
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The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“...another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
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One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
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If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes.… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
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I'm not currently into economic textbooks, but my grandchildren tell me that the book by Gregory Mankiw, former head of the white… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
