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Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD… — Nelson DeMille
Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start… — Daniel Silva
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering… — Frank Zappa
As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which… — Sharon Creech
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most… — Benjamin Tucker
I have always been accused of taking the things I love â€“ football, of course, but also books and records â€“ much too seriously, and… — Nick Hornby
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as… — Michael Cunningham
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is… — Orhan Pamuk
And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and… — Al Franken
Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writingâ€”and finishingâ€”a novel is a great thing in… — Garth Nix
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself. — Mary Travers
When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood… — Elizabeth Bowen
Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine. — J. R. Ackerley
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who… — Christopher Columbus
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,… — H. L. Mencken
Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read. — Unknown Author
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. — Don Paterson
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in… — William Labov
One of the best things Iâ€™ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into… — John Jeremiah Sullivan

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