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'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
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The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“[Ulysses] appears to have been written by a perverted lunatic who has made a speciality of the literature of the latrine… I… — Aramis Copy Share Image
“People would question anything having to do with God, but they wouldn’t question their own questions. They would challenge the authority of… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
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“My publishers, two Catalan brothers with an inherited income, took me out to lunch to inform me that the first print run… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on… — James Burrows Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American… — Corey Clark Copy Share Image
“I believe in the theory that you should invert the genders in Proust - to me, it makes more sense like that,… — Manny Rayner Copy Share Image
“And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“The book the man is reading is the Word of God, the Bible. It has become both the focus of and the… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“A library of books like Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race (1916) warned the Americans that they could not safely… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield writes in his bestselling book The War of Art, “Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
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“By engaging with film illusions both actively and passively – as I attempt to do in this book – we strengthen the… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
The first time I shopped at a comic shop, it was because I had been published in a comic book. As I… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Now it is a pleasant pastime, a joy and pleasure, to read the Bible and religious books, tracts, and papers, whereby I… — E. E. Byrum Copy Share Image
In short, if you have any question about whether a particular movie, book, or other form of entertainment is appropriate, don’t see… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted it to do,… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“The Bible and other similar books are tools which were planted to let everyone know ahead of time about what was planned… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image