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I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.
JOHN CHEEVER Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
C.D. WRIGHT I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that s...
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Secret Notes:
He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born,...
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The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full st...
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EVAN SPIEGEL![]()
Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers...
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in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our...
MATT HAIG Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound,...
TOM CHATFIELD![]()
If I had stayed human, how could you have remained with me as a lifemate?” She pushed her rounded ...
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For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now w...
DANIEL MORGAN![]()
Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It wo...
BILLY GIBBONS Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
HORACE WALPOLE Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three...
DICK MEYER![]()
I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to...
KAGE BAKER All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen w...
PAMELA PAUL Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
DAVID STRATHAIRN We separate ourselves from the pack by providing other activities surrounding the event rather than ...
DALE HELFRICH![]()
...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civiliz...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER![]()
Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.
DAVID PUTTNAM![]()
...There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
LEMONY SNICKET![]()
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
LEMONY SNICKET Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what...
ALBERTO MANGUEL Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ...
JO WALTON![]()
It has become increasingly difficult ... for the very few big powers or blocs of big powers to monop...
JIANG ZEMIN![]()
The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor ...
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS![]()
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANONYMOUS![]()
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any...
STEPHAN GRELLET![]()
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN![]()
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
PATRICA FRIPP![]()
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS![]()
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU![]()
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
JAMES T. FARRELL![]()
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT![]()
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
AUSTIN PHELPS![]()
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
ED HOWE![]()
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM![]()
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ![]()
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
DAWN ADAMS Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX![]()
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
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Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th...
UNKNOWN The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
BIBLE![]()
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
ANONYMOUS Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if p...
NICHOLAS MEYER![]()
There are some things that are exciting for distributors. I love Apple's AppStore and the things...
JOHN CARMACK The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, c...
PATRICIA DUNCKER![]()
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so...
CORY DOCTOROW A writer has to have an imagination- that's what makes a writer. She has to be able to put herself i...
WYKETHA K PARKMAN![]()
Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behi...
STACIA KANE![]()
A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (......
JOHN FOWLES We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an inter...
JAMES SHAPIRO![]()
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior tex...
HAROLD BLOOM We continue to add key distributors across Europe so aviation customers keen to use Exxon Elite and ...
BILL DENNIS![]()
If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.
AMAN JASSAL Relationships are easy if I don't let the other person control me and I don't try to control the oth...
JIM GENOVESE Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
GAVYN DAVIES Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
DEBI GLIORI![]()
I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, t...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Rather than awarding stars or other labels for quality, we strive to give readers the tools, such as...
LINDA COFFMAN I had a simple dream that children and parents could check out books and enjoy the services that wer...
MARTA MORALES![]()
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
CARLOS FUENTES And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY![]()
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So,...
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KATHY PURDY Don't forget digital cameras. Gardeners love them, and are more likely to document their garden's pr...
KATHY PURDY![]()
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for...
ADAM MCKAY You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.
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It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run w...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
KELLY JONES Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In ...
JODI RELL Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In ...
JODI RELL Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.
CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always le...
PAMELA PAUL The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, edit...
ADAM MANSBACH
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. JOHN CHEEVER Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
C.D. WRIGHT I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that s...
LAURA ANNE GILMAN
Secret Notes:He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born,...
BRIAN ANDREAS
The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full st... MICHEL FOUCAULT Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...
M.R. JAMES We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the wo...
EVAN SPIEGEL
Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers... CECELIA AHERN
in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our... MATT HAIG Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound,...
TOM CHATFIELD
If I had stayed human, how could you have remained with me as a lifemate?” She pushed her rounded ... CHRISTINE FEEHAN It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools an...
ANDREW NIKIFORUK While most students are knowledgeable about and like the databases, software programs and other high...
EILEEN HARDEN
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now w... DANIEL MORGAN
Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It wo... BILLY GIBBONS Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
HORACE WALPOLE Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three...
DICK MEYER
I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to... KAGE BAKER All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen w...
PAMELA PAUL Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
DAVID STRATHAIRN We separate ourselves from the pack by providing other activities surrounding the event rather than ...
DALE HELFRICH
...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civiliz... JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies. DAVID PUTTNAM
...There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. LEMONY SNICKET
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. LEMONY SNICKET Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what...
ALBERTO MANGUEL Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ...
JO WALTON
It has become increasingly difficult ... for the very few big powers or blocs of big powers to monop... JIANG ZEMIN
The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor ... STARHAWK
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. CLIFF FADIMAN
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ... HENRY BROOKS ADAMS
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. ANONYMOUS
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any... STEPHAN GRELLET
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com... W. GLADDEN
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. PATRICA FRIPP
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. HENRY DAVID THOREAU
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. JAMES T. FARRELL
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. WALTER BAGEHOT
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. AUSTIN PHELPS
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. ED HOWE
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. FRAN LEBOWITZ
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.". HILAIRE BELLOC Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
DAWN ADAMS Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!. FANNIE FLAGG
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th... UNKNOWN The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
BIBLE
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. ANONYMOUS Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three.
NICHOLAS MEYER
There are some things that are exciting for distributors. I love Apple's AppStore and the things... JOHN CARMACK The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, c...
PATRICIA DUNCKER
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so... CORY DOCTOROW A writer has to have an imagination- that's what makes a writer. She has to be able to put herself i...
WYKETHA K PARKMAN
Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behi... STACIA KANE
A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...... JOHN FOWLES We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an inter...
JAMES SHAPIRO
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior tex... HAROLD BLOOM We continue to add key distributors across Europe so aviation customers keen to use Exxon Elite and ...
BILL DENNIS
If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader. AMAN JASSAL Relationships are easy if I don't let the other person control me and I don't try to control the oth...
JIM GENOVESE Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
GAVYN DAVIES Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
DEBI GLIORI
I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, t... ALI IBN ABI TALIB Rather than awarding stars or other labels for quality, we strive to give readers the tools, such as...
LINDA COFFMAN I had a simple dream that children and parents could check out books and enjoy the services that wer...
MARTA MORALES
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t... CARLOS FUENTES And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So,... BARACK OBAMA Don't forget digital cameras. Gardeners love them and are more likely to document their garden's pro...
KATHY PURDY Don't forget digital cameras. Gardeners love them, and are more likely to document their garden's pr...
KATHY PURDY
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for... ADAM MCKAY You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.
SCOTT EDWARD SHJEFTE
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run w... AGATHA CHRISTIE
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. 
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One person's car is another person's scenery. 
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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi... 
Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken. 
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real... 
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the... 
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa... 
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Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... 
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... 
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... 
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he... 
Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. 
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is ... 
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n... 
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re... 
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. 
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t... 
There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r... 
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. 
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. 
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ... 