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CHARLES SOULE![]()
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the ...
DANICA MCKELLAR The organ was his forte, but he was gifted with all music. He'd look at music and it would be like h...
DENNIS COFFIN![]()
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ...
BUCHI EMECHETA![]()
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd...
CORNELIA FUNKE![]()
Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying ...
JODI PICOULT![]()
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure...
CORNELIA FUNKE![]()
I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a lieutenant 23 years earlier, and I remembered how h...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just ...
EDWARD G. ROBINSON![]()
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was signific...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON They had a powerful association when reading the picture book. They all felt a sense of comfort. Whe...
CAROL CLARKE![]()
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that...
HUEY NEWTON When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS Tiffany learned that Lin had stolen Tiffany’s book title idea: “2 girls 1 cup.” A month ago, T...
LIN XUN He was an avid reader, would read a book every two or three days. Then I started to notice the same ...
GAIL BIRD![]()
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ...
BUCHI EMECHETA![]()
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL I was nervous at first, ... But the snapper and the holder had been good all night and nobody had be...
BRAD COX He had never played running back before, and tonight was really the first game he was reading blocks...
BOB MEYER He was coming across the lane and he had a good screen set on him. It was a clean play. It just caug...
GRANT SMYTHERS![]()
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had t...
JIMMY BRESLIN![]()
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
DAVID MITCHELL We had a handful on that last restart. Todd was really good on the restarts and he was giving it all...
MARK MARTIN![]()
He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his fir...
CHARLES L. GRANT I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government...
CAITLIN KITTREDGE![]()
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH![]()
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH![]()
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then be...
KATHERINE PATERSON![]()
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin...
AKHIL SHARMA He could judge with reasonable accuracy the amount of use a book had had. The first item to show any...
LEONARD HOLTON![]()
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo...
JACKIE COLLINS![]()
A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO![]()
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surrept...
JAMES M. BARRIE If Charlie had gone on, he would have been right at the top. He was a great musician.
DICK SMITH![]()
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w...
GLEN DUNCAN![]()
My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had f...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS That was two back-to-back triples leading off that inning. Patrick hit the ball hard all four at-bat...
CRAIG BEESLEY![]()
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear think...
BERNARD CORNWELL![]()
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false ...
ANNA GODBERSEN We all love to read, and sometimes, everyone in the family reads the same book so we can talk about ...
DOUG KING This book will really emphasize pictures. The other book was very well received, but we didn't want ...
LOWELL HIGHBY He had a lot of grass stains on the back of his pants. That is because he was getting first downs an...
BRAD HOPKINS Working as a bookbinder, I had put covers on "The Lord of the Rings," but I never read it. It was ju...
BILLY BOYD We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until w...
LORI LEVEEN![]()
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON Barry was really good, and he was good yesterday. He's been really focused. We knew he's had the tal...
JAY HERKELMAN![]()
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read A...
JOAN DIDION![]()
I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat."
Beale's narra...
P.G. WODEHOUSE He was working under the house, which had been raised up on a hydraulic bottle jack. It appeared tha...
LEE CAMPBELL I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who ...
NATHAN FILER![]()
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children"....
RICHARD WRIGHT I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. SCOTT BERG I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't e...
CAROLYN STRAUSS I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never ...
KATHRYN LASKY![]()
I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luthe...
JOHN LEWIS The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He de...
MARTIN BASHIR![]()
It was the first time either of them had ever held another's hand, and for them alone, the immensity...
LAINI TAYLOR![]()
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p...
PAUL THEROUX We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about...
TED CHIANG![]()
She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I had been working on that trick for about two months prior to that day. That was actually the first...
MIKE LAIRD At first glance, people probably thought the whole company was up for sale. People had a night to sl...
ERIC BOSSHARD C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.![]()
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications h...
POUL ANDERSON That late three-pointer in regulation, that was luck. The rest of their shooting, they had it on all...
ADONNA WEAVER It was an April day and I went out into the garden and it had been raining during the night. I had t...
ALBERT HOFMANN The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several pa...
SALMON P. CHASE What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Wa...
GINA JONES![]()
My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA![]()
I read a lot this week but my favorite character that does not appears very much but has a nig part ...
DAV PILKEY This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine...
EDWARD ROMERO![]()
If you don't like peas,it is probably because you have not had them fresh.It is the difference betwe...
LEMONY SNICKET I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. ...
HAKAN NESSER![]()
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970...
HILARY MANTEL![]()
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we ...
J. K. SIMMONS The story of the night was Matt. He had four 3-pointers in the first half. It was good to see him sc...
ED HICKEY![]()
It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the sh...
CORRIE TEN BOOM She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan ...
MEG WOLITZER![]()
The guy had guts—I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.
ROB THURMAN![]()
Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read...
EDITH WHARTON He deserved it. It was us showing him our respect. It was the same amount of respect that he had sho...
ROB DAVIS He was a really, really outstanding back. He came through my camp and showed people he had quickness...
JOE BUTLER![]()
I actually didn't mind too much that Gabriel had spent the past four nights in my room. He was relat...
JOHN COREY WHALEY When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
BIBLE![]()
It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly....
VIRGINIA WOOLF I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing. He was driving kind of aggressive all night. I think ...
TONY RAINES My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha...
RICK YANCEY![]()
I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it ha...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was the type of guy that brought a little more sunshine into your day whether it was cloudy or su...
DICK YOCHUM I'm thinking about it, ... I was supposed to play football when I first came here. That was what I w...
WALLACE SPEARMON![]()
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
RICHARD RUSSO![]()
I had my first dream about you last night.
Really? She smiles. What was it about?
I don't...
LANG LEAV It was a relief to hear because I thought Peter had been very faithful to the book.
ANDREW ADAMSON![]()
What?” Ron bellowed furiously. “Four? You lousy, biased scumbag, you gave Krum ten!” But Harry...
J.K. ROWLING If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a "prone position" on the ni...
DAVID HOROWITZ![]()
In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON![]()
The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, c...
CHRISTINA ENGELA![]()
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to...
LEWIS CARROLL
CHARLES SOULE
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the ... DANICA MCKELLAR The organ was his forte, but he was gifted with all music. He'd look at music and it would be like h...
DENNIS COFFIN
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ... BUCHI EMECHETA
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd... CORNELIA FUNKE
Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying ... JODI PICOULT
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure... CORNELIA FUNKE
I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a lieutenant 23 years earlier, and I remembered how h... STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just ...
EDWARD G. ROBINSON
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was signific... RALPH WALDO EMERSON They had a powerful association when reading the picture book. They all felt a sense of comfort. Whe...
CAROL CLARKE
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that... HUEY NEWTON When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS Tiffany learned that Lin had stolen Tiffany’s book title idea: “2 girls 1 cup.” A month ago, T...
LIN XUN He was an avid reader, would read a book every two or three days. Then I started to notice the same ...
GAIL BIRD
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ... BUCHI EMECHETA
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa... BARBARA MANDRELL I was nervous at first, ... But the snapper and the holder had been good all night and nobody had be...
BRAD COX He had never played running back before, and tonight was really the first game he was reading blocks...
BOB MEYER He was coming across the lane and he had a good screen set on him. It was a clean play. It just caug...
GRANT SMYTHERS
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had t... JIMMY BRESLIN
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. DAVID MITCHELL We had a handful on that last restart. Todd was really good on the restarts and he was giving it all...
MARK MARTIN
He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his fir...
CHARLES L. GRANT I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government...
CAITLIN KITTREDGE
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I ... OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re... OLIVER GOLDSMITH
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then be... KATHERINE PATERSON
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin... AKHIL SHARMA He could judge with reasonable accuracy the amount of use a book had had. The first item to show any...
LEONARD HOLTON
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo... JACKIE COLLINS
A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H... ITALO CALVINO
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surrept... JAMES M. BARRIE If Charlie had gone on, he would have been right at the top. He was a great musician.
DICK SMITH
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w... GLEN DUNCAN
My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had f... NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS That was two back-to-back triples leading off that inning. Patrick hit the ball hard all four at-bat...
CRAIG BEESLEY
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear think... BERNARD CORNWELL
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false ... ANNA GODBERSEN We all love to read, and sometimes, everyone in the family reads the same book so we can talk about ...
DOUG KING This book will really emphasize pictures. The other book was very well received, but we didn't want ...
LOWELL HIGHBY He had a lot of grass stains on the back of his pants. That is because he was getting first downs an...
BRAD HOPKINS Working as a bookbinder, I had put covers on "The Lord of the Rings," but I never read it. It was ju...
BILLY BOYD We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until w...
LORI LEVEEN
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face."...
BRANDON SANDERSON Barry was really good, and he was good yesterday. He's been really focused. We knew he's had the tal...
JAY HERKELMAN
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read A... JOAN DIDION
I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat." Beale's narra...
P.G. WODEHOUSE He was working under the house, which had been raised up on a hydraulic bottle jack. It appeared tha...
LEE CAMPBELL I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who ...
NATHAN FILER
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children".... RICHARD WRIGHT I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. SCOTT BERG I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't e...
CAROLYN STRAUSS I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never ...
KATHRYN LASKY
I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luthe... JOHN LEWIS The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He de...
MARTIN BASHIR
It was the first time either of them had ever held another's hand, and for them alone, the immensity... LAINI TAYLOR
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p... PAUL THEROUX We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about...
TED CHIANG
She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and... NICHOLAS SPARKS I had been working on that trick for about two months prior to that day. That was actually the first...
MIKE LAIRD At first glance, people probably thought the whole company was up for sale. People had a night to sl...
ERIC BOSSHARD C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But...
ROY L. PICKERING JR.
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications h... POUL ANDERSON That late three-pointer in regulation, that was luck. The rest of their shooting, they had it on all...
ADONNA WEAVER It was an April day and I went out into the garden and it had been raining during the night. I had t...
ALBERT HOFMANN The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several pa...
SALMON P. CHASE What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Wa...
GINA JONES
My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ... SOPHIE KINSELLA
I read a lot this week but my favorite character that does not appears very much but has a nig part ... DAV PILKEY This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine...
EDWARD ROMERO
If you don't like peas,it is probably because you have not had them fresh.It is the difference betwe... LEMONY SNICKET I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. ...
HAKAN NESSER
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970... HILARY MANTEL
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we ... J. K. SIMMONS The story of the night was Matt. He had four 3-pointers in the first half. It was good to see him sc...
ED HICKEY
It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the sh... CORRIE TEN BOOM She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan ...
MEG WOLITZER
The guy had guts—I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them. ROB THURMAN
Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read... EDITH WHARTON He deserved it. It was us showing him our respect. It was the same amount of respect that he had sho...
ROB DAVIS He was a really, really outstanding back. He came through my camp and showed people he had quickness...
JOE BUTLER
I actually didn't mind too much that Gabriel had spent the past four nights in my room. He was relat... JOHN COREY WHALEY When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
BIBLE
It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly.... VIRGINIA WOOLF I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing. He was driving kind of aggressive all night. I think ...
TONY RAINES My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha...
RICK YANCEY
I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it ha... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was the type of guy that brought a little more sunshine into your day whether it was cloudy or su...
DICK YOCHUM I'm thinking about it, ... I was supposed to play football when I first came here. That was what I w...
WALLACE SPEARMON
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. RICHARD RUSSO
I had my first dream about you last night. Really? She smiles. What was it about?
I don't...
LANG LEAV It was a relief to hear because I thought Peter had been very faithful to the book.
ANDREW ADAMSON
What?” Ron bellowed furiously. “Four? You lousy, biased scumbag, you gave Krum ten!” But Harry... J.K. ROWLING If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a "prone position" on the ni...
DAVID HOROWITZ
In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, c... CHRISTINA ENGELA
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to... LEWIS CARROLL
Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's no... 
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With... 
We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literall... 
Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly t... 
'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous v... 
'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. ... 
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ... 
I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blo... 
I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels ... 
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. 
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ... 
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o... 
I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th b... 
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music duri... 
My first date ever, I was kind of nervous, so I was like, 'I'm going to bring Brady to this ... 
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? 
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. 
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of ... 
It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emer... 
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. 
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. 
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. 
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. 
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The... 
I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them a... 
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't abo... 
All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the over... 
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a ... 
Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the rac... 
'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time. 
I have a routine for a day I'm in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I&#... 
Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling. 
I try desperately to never drink bottled water. 
I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way.... 
The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as th... 
When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and... 