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- We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not…
- A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
- Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
- It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you like…
- He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
- They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could…
- All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she…
- In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
- Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved...…
- I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than…
- I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating…
- Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
- How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly…
- Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be…
- Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
- That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in…
- Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and…
- And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that…
- The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name…
- You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about…
- Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books,…
- I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys…
- Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless…
- Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot…
- Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each…
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- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood