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- I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.
- Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
- I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of…
- The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for…
- I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will…
- I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
- I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.
- I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of…
- If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and…
- The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many,…
- There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and…
- There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He…
- There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.
- That's more than three questions, Max. And sometimes wheter someone is your friend or enemy is all in how you look at it. But if…
- If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a…
- Oh, my God. It hit me like a tsunami then: how perfect he was for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for,…
- We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice…
- What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are…
- When did they start coming after you?” “Was it—was it after the oil- slick Hummer crash?” the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick…
- It's for upset stomachs,' Dylan said, trying to hide a smile. He pointed to the words in the box. 'It's to reduce gas in your…
- Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me...…
- If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be…
- There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.
- I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an…
- A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle