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Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to…
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No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
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A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.…
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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what…
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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been…
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An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a…
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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come…
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I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams,…
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My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the…
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in…
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Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a…
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
— Roberto Bolano
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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should…
— Ray Bradbury
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I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has…
— Denis Kearney
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Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at…
— Wallace Stegner
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There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and…
— Eudora Welty
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Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least…
— Stephen King
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The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though…
— Susan Cooper
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The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes…
— Marc Maron
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
— Annie Dillard
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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too…
— Orson Scott Card
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I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.
— Marchette Chute
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