Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that… — Christopher Gist Copy Share Image
In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins… — Diego Giacometti Copy Share Image
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
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I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain… — Joe Tinker Copy Share Image
What might be happening in human beings who experience near death is that they are getting cold, but before they get so… — Mark Roth Copy Share Image
I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Anyone would be embarrassed of what they did at 15 or 16. I listen back to that first record, and I'm like,… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
Polanski was an abused child. And he flew too near to the sun too quickly. — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right.… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
