When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
On one occasion I got this really bizarre horoscope thing from someone. It was a full-on zodiac reading, charting and intersecting all… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Fresh, fun and oh-so-romantic, WILD HEARTS had me galloping through the pages. I absolutely loved it. — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
I never ever would have thought initially it would have been someone like Pierce playing Charles. I think he has an innate… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up. — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
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