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KELLY JONES I never read articles about my books.
BEN SCHOTT Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at...
LIN YUTANG One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Sections in the bookstore
- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...
KERI HULME Magazine articles are the new books.
TINA BROWN In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expec...
PAUL FUSSELL The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Eve...
SHANNON L. ALDER Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind i...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of mon...
DONALD J. TRUMP In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO The products your life must have could be in the form of books you’ve read or teachings you listen...
SUNDAY ADELAJA One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read th...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewe...
JOHN GREEN I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know...
JASON ISAACS There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT They're only trees. Only trees. Whose afraid of lonely trees?
RUTH FRANCES LONG Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il...
WILLIAM DONELSON Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the ne...
STEVEN MAGEE But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need...
RON RASH Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
ALBERTO MANGUEL How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you?
TAPAN GHOSH I know the mind of ancient souls by reading ancient books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.
Not only do you learn in the journey ...
LIZ HAY The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for...
ISABEL ALLENDE Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil...
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM Those books of mine really got under their skin. Ironically, they thought I was inhuman becau...
STEVE TOLTZ I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL I need to tell you about Amadou and his sweet soul so that his life and memory will have meaning to ...
KADIATOU DIALLO Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary ...
CARMEN AGRA DEEDY In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I do not serve and never will serve the human body. I serve only the human soul - the soul that is t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor ...
WALTER BENJAMIN And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do y...
ANWAR ROBINSON The holidays are a hard time. You can go anywhere and read articles about how hard it is for people ...
JANELLA WHITESIDE Thank you for the friendship! Yes, GoodReads is fabulous fun, and the best reviews are so illuminati...
WILLIAM DONELSON People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting i...
JASPER FFORDE I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasio...
WALTER O'BRIEN I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ...
CARL SAGAN A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi...
HORACE MANN Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book...
AIDAN CHAMBERS I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn'...
EDDIE KAYE THOMAS The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash.
ROSEMARIE YUSEN A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, ...
WILLIAM OSLER I prayed and asked God to remove the Jack out of my box, and not only did he remove the Jack, but he...
SUSIE L HILL If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
CHINESE PROVERB If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
CHINESE PROVERBS As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
RICK RIORDAN Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they c...
BOSS TWEED I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they c...
BOSS TWEED Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up...
OSCAR WILDE Our feeling is that directed donations were most likely intended for people that the donor or donor ...
JOEL NEWMAN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC A man's faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues.
CHINESE PROVERBS We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.
DENIS HACHEY All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulat...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of
antiquarian books.
'Imp...
JASPER FFORDE I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.
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UFUOMA APOKI In Griffin, I have a customer who always buys two copies of his favorite books one to read and on...
BILL PHILLIPS You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost po...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.
AMIT KALANTRI If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll se...
WILLIAM SHATNER Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together hap...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not r...
DAVID THEWLIS She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a dro...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must qu...
A.E. HOUSMAN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The...
VLADIMIR PUTIN In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written ...
OSCAR WILDE I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I hav...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that ...
R.L. STINE Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. Bu...
C.S. LEWIS The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we...
CAROLYN WELLS Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another tw...
TONY REINKE what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'...
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LARRY TEMPLETON They need all the help they can get in the situation they are in. It's the least we could do.
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JACK PALANCE Perfectionists are their own devils.
JACK KIRBY Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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JACK WILD I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a...
JACK WILD I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. ...
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JACK WILD It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you ar...
JACK WILD There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
JACK WILD At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly t...
JACK WILD My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
JACK WILD I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
JACK WHITTAKER It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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JACK WHITTAKER I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
JACK WHITTAKER I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
JACK WHITTAKER I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
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JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life.
JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f...
JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years...
JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young.
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JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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JACK VANCE The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning...
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JACK VANCE If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
JACK VALENTI Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, at...
JACK VALENTI Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched...
JACK VALENTI I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films ...
JACK VALENTI The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
JACK STRAW It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER