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Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where… — Holmes Rolston III
I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better… — Unknown Author
THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted for her from… — Jackie Morse Kessler
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As… — Lawrence Wright
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but… — Niall Williams
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the childrenâ€™s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories Iâ€™ve been hearing noised about for… — Unknown Author
CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a deceptively simple hard-boiled… — Lisa Morton
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,… — Barbara Johnson
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. — Yann Martel
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and… — Jonathan Dimbleby
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting.… — Berenice Bejo
I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously. — Robin Trower
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable,… — Roxane Gay
If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away… — Roy Sesana
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and… — John L. Casti
The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble --… — Philip Connors
Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read. — Liz Curtis Higgs
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you… — Austin Kleon
The best advice is not to write what you know, itâ€™s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like bestâ€”write the… — Austin Kleon
Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. — Austin Kleon

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