I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
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Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
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If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
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We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
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We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
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War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
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In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
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So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics,… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
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A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
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