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Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer… — Stephen King
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy,… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance… — Carl Sagan
A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is… — Anne Bronte
I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth. — Ann B. Ross
Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood… — Rick Riordan
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It… — C.S. Lewis
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted… — John Waters
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the… — P.D. James
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — Frantz Fanon
. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up… — Ann Patchett
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means… — Jerry Seinfeld
I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His! — Jan Karon
And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked… — Norton Juster
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people… — Dan Simmons
Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their… — Bertrand Russell
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… — Tom Stoppard
The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego… — Eckhart Tolle
This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and… — Eddie Izzard
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in… — David McCullough
Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great… — Lewis Carroll
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were… — Elizabeth Bowen

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