Book Quote by Campbell McGrath

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I…

— Cory Doctorow

“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had…

— Bell Hooks

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

— Mat Kearney

Tessa had begun to tremble. This is what she had always wanted someone to say. What she had always, in the darkest corner of…

— Cassandra Clare

“Poetry Poetry, How did you find your way to me? My mother does not know Albanian well, She writes letters like Aragon, without commas…

— Ismail Kadare

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it…

— Edward Hirsch

“Sometimes people rise above their past, sometimes not. And sometimes the people you least expect it from—like Raylan and my father— have a way…

— Kayla Cunningham

Actually,” I said, hesitant to bring it up, “I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human.” “Or witch?”…

— Kim Harrison

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

— Christopher Hitchens

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

— William Deresiewicz

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap