I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
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I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir.… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility;… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
I was reading in the Bible and one translation says that Jesus said that if you publicly will acknowledge me before people,… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If you were watching CNN, they were saying the NSA is listening to your phone calls. It's reading your emails. When you… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader, This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known. I have made… — Kelly Gardiner Copy Share Image
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I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
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I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
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Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right… — Jeffrey Boam Copy Share Image
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Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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“Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to… — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
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A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
