Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.
Oliver Markus Malloy
Related
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
ANNIE BARROWS Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
MARY ANN SHAFFER I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.
YUVAL NOAH HARARI When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Cosa farei senza libri? Ne ho la casa piena, eppure non mi bastano mai. Vorrei avere una giornata di...
DACIA MARAINI If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you ...
JOE QUEENAN I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.
COLLEEN HOOVER When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read histor...
T. B. JOSHUA I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
MARKUS ZUSAK Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
JOHN HARINGTON Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
JOHN HARINGTON Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
MARK TWAIN Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you alw...
MARK HELPRIN An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other ti...
JEN CAMPBELL Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...
PAXTON HOOD People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.
JULIE RUGG When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. A...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER You're never alone when you're reading a book.
SUSAN WIGGS I love books.
I enjoyed reading.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather ...
DAN WILBUR Reading books affords you the priceless opportunity to enjoy information others labored hard to disc...
SUNDAY ADELAJA A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Great is the benefit of booklearning; for through books we are instructed and inducted into the path...
THE PRIMARY CHRONICLE A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.
AMAN JASSAL Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle ...
LIN YUTANG Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
PAT CONROY Greatest companion is found in reading great books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
CATHLEEN SCHINE Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading ...
GEORGE F. WILL I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. LEWIS It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live sev...
WILLIAM STYRON Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to t...
JOHN GREEN It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
OSCAR WILDE If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
OSCAR WILDE Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
LEMONY SNICKET Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.
STéPHANE MALLARMé Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
JANE SMILEY You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to re...
PAT CONROY Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
J.K. ROWLING I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
GARY PAULSEN Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read back...
NICOLA YOON Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
DIANE DUANE She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe et...
ANNIE DILLARD The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave...
JAY KRISTOFF Never underrate the power of books,by the time you get old & become idle,one thing that can keep you...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person read...
MEM FOX I can not live with out books.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - tha...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure p...
PAUL AUSTER أحياناً تقوم بقراءة كتاب من روعته تريد اصطحابه معك لعد�...
MARKUS ZUSAK وَلا أحدَ يعْرِفُ أنَّنا كلمَا أغلقْنَا كتاباً كلما سد...
واسينى الأعرج You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read t...
MELISSA MARR I also like to escape inside their world,
tucked behind their colorful spines. It forces me to ...
KATIE KACVINSKY I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the ...
LAURA LEE GUHRKE Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ...
ANYA SETON Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it...
JACK LASENBY ...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books ma...
FéLIX J. PALMA إن الكتب مثل الناس فيهم السيد الوقور وفيهم الكيس الظري�...
عباس محمود العقاد I read like the flame reads the wood.
ALFRED DöBLIN I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
C.S. LEWIS I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be...
JOHN GREEN For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that o...
ANNE LAMOTT We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulg...
JULES VERNE An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols print...
BRANDON MULL In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to...
JANE AUSTEN I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will ...
JANE AUSTEN He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings...
JANE AUSTEN Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING We're reading some of the books about the Titanic. We're going to see the exhibit at the museum in a...
BEN RIVERS That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing wi...
MARY ANN SHAFFER My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.
MARKUS ZUSAK He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
VICTOR HUGO What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to li...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgott...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much...
NORMAN COUSINS Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't f...
PETER USTINOV When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.
CHLOE THURLOW My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyi...
MALCOLM X Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if...
BILL WATTERSON Good aims not always make good books.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so muc...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
JASPER FFORDE A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own ...
STEPHEN KING Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love t...
ARNOLD LOBEL In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by da...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
More Oliver Markus Malloy
How come there's no commandment that says "Thou shalt not rape"? Did God ask Mary for consent before...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Do flat-earthers believe that other planets are also flat?
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Why ban guns? Let's give everyone rocket launchers! What could possibly go wrong?
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY I grew up in Germany. Europe is far more liberal than America. Even most conservative right-wing par...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?
Philosophers have pondered that question fo...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Introverts think about more than just being introverts.
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY We men really, really, really like sex. We like sex so much, many of us are willing to risk getting ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY No two dogs are alike. And yet, all dogs have something in common that makes them dogs, and makes th...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Ladies,
I have bad news for you. Men are pigs. No really. I know you think you know what ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Some people looove to feel offended because it makes them feel important. When your only tool is a h...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY There is neither a Heaven for a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY There's a reason why most men don't read romance: Romance novels are wish-fulfillment for women. The...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY You probably think you know all about men, because you read a lot of romance novels, so you think yo...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY It would appear that a lot of people out there are hiding their own dark, socially unacceptable sexu...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Sometimes, just for fun, I type some random, silly word in front of the word porn and google it. Jus...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY We all know that sex is the most interesting topic in the world. We love to talk about sex. There's ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Why do some people feel offended by the word shit, but not by the word poop? Because some little old...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY I curse when I get really upset. Letting off steam that way makes me feel a little bit better. I've ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY We like to romanticize the wild, raw, majestic beauty of nature. But when you take a closer look, na...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Why do some people feel offended by the word shit, but not by the word poop? Because some little old...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY I saw a documentary about prostitution in Holland a few years ago, that said over there health insur...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Prostitution is not exactly a reputable business over there either, even though the girls actually h...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY In Germany, people will agree in theory that prostitution should be legal, but they usually won't ad...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Right now we live in an age of extreme Political Correctness. It has gone way too far. I hope it's j...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY No matter what you do, no matter what you say, someone out there will proclaim how outraged they are...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY There's a reason why most men don't read romance: Romance novels are wish-fulfillment for women. The...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Everything we men do, everything we men have done for the past 100,000 years, is all about attractin...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY It's hard to argue over money when a girl flashes you her pussy.
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-rig...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a d...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Being a self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY These social media shamings bear an uncanny resemblance to medieval witch hunts.”
If y...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Claiming to be offended is a great way to elevate yourself at the expense of others: “Look at me! ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY A lot of women are ashamed of their pussies. They think it's not pretty enough. Not the right color....
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Every word serves a purpose. It conveys an idea. And the idea behind words like feces, stool, or poo...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Why do women love to read about sexually aggressive billionaire bad boy alpha males but condemn the ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Claiming to be offended is a great way to elevate yourself at the expense of others: “Look at me! ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Claiming to be offended is a great way to elevate yourself at the expense of others: “Look at me! ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY If a girl wants to sell her body, so be it. None of my business. Don't athletes sell their bodies, t...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Mating has been programmed into our DNA. And that programming always influences our interaction with...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everyt...
OLIVER MARKUS Envy is the desire to have what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear of losing what you have. The ...
OLIVER MARKUS The red lipstick? It's supposed to signal fertility and readiness to mate. Just like the swollen red...
OLIVER MARKUS Being faithful and monogamous is not natural for human beings. It takes work. Deep down we all know ...
OLIVER MARKUS The sexier the other woman is, the more jealous your wife gets. And that's where slut shaming comes ...
OLIVER MARKUS It's probably not easy for a woman to understand what it's like to be a man. Imagine you're starving...
OLIVER MARKUS I think there's something to the old saying that women use sex to get love, and men use love to get ...
OLIVER MARKUS God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.
OLIVER MARKUS Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing wh...
OLIVER MARKUS Don't ever think you're better than a drug addict, because your brain works the same as theirs. You ...
OLIVER MARKUS When you push someone's head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn't matter if the pe...
OLIVER MARKUS Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes y...
OLIVER MARKUS Only about 3 percent of animal species are monogamous. A couple of penguins, some otters and a few o...
OLIVER MARKUS Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man'...
OLIVER MARKUS Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and...
OLIVER MARKUS If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and y...
OLIVER MARKUS Look at the huge success of Fifty Shades of Grey. The girl in the book lets a rich guy beat her and ...
OLIVER MARKUS It's like playing the lottery. It doesn't matter how extremely low the chances are of winning. You g...
OLIVER MARKUS The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing ...
DAN MALLOY I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying of...
DAN MALLOY If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. The...
DAN MALLOY Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
DAN MALLOY Afghanistan—where empires go to die.
MIKE MALLOY No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legali...
DANNEL MALLOY I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
DANNEL MALLOY We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for...
DANNEL MALLOY There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual perfor...
DANNEL MALLOY If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.
DANNEL MALLOY It is clearly improper for a campaign manager to negotiate with a government entity, and to be in to...
DANNEL MALLOY Will it work better in some areas than others? Sure. But you can't defend a system that was in part ...
DANNEL MALLOY We've never seen anything like it.
DANNEL MALLOY All hospitals and all pharmacies licensed in the state of Connecticut to prescribe drugs, be prepare...
DANNEL MALLOY I met them in Minneapolis when the Society hosted a brunch for this year's winners and gave us these...
BRIAN MALLOY Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Lis...
DANNEL MALLOY I may not want this in my backyard, but this is much bigger than Athens.
DOUG MALLOY We are seeing a growing number of new and innovative applications emerging as a result of our high d...
CRAIG MALLOY When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations...
DANNEL MALLOY Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
DANNEL MALLOY The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, ...
DANNEL MALLOY I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.
DANNEL MALLOY Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's ...
DANNEL MALLOY You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having ...
DANNEL MALLOY If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be suc...
DANNEL MALLOY If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. The...
DANNEL MALLOY Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, gene...
DANNEL MALLOY What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute...
DANNEL MALLOY You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.
DANNEL MALLOY I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.
DANNEL MALLOY I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there sh...
DANNEL MALLOY I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citi...
DANNEL MALLOY Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn...
DANNEL MALLOY I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don...
DANNEL MALLOY I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connec...
DANNEL MALLOY These kids got some invaluable experience.
JEFF MALLOY Defense has been our weak point this year, particularly in the second half.
JEFF MALLOY She has to be (on the top of her game).
JEFF MALLOY I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.
JEFF MALLOY I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to...
OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ...
OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact...
OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
OLIVER I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to hav...
MARKUS PERSSON No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof wa...
MARKUS ZUSAK Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It ...
MARKUS WOLF I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they ...
MARKUS ZUSAK You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I rec...
MARKUS ZUSAK How does it feel, anyway?"
How does what feel?"
When you take one of those books?"
At...
MARKUS ZUSAK We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something...
MARKUS ZUSAK I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain ...
MARKUS ZUSAK The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
MARKUS ZUSAK Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
MARKUS HERZ Si lance was not quiet and calm, and it was not peace.
MARKUS ZUSAK A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I...
MARKUS ZUSAK Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they...
MARKUS ZUSAK Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
MARKUS ZUSAK He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He m...
MARKUS ZUSAK Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
MARKUS ZUSAK We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of ...
MARKUS ZUSAK There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at al...
MARKUS ZUSAK Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile a...
MARKUS ZUSAK I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage tha...
MARKUS ZUSAK Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want."
"W...
MARKUS ZUSAK Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He wa...
MARKUS ZUSAK Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
MARKUS ZUSAK I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
MARKUS ZUSAK All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
MARKUS ZUSAK She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren�...
MARKUS ZUSAK She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, sof...
MARKUS ZUSAK A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often...
MARKUS ZUSAK The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
MARKUS ZUSAK She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.
MARKUS ZUSAK He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.
She was the bo...
MARKUS ZUSAK Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to...
MARKUS PERSSON I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while ot...
MARKUS ZUSAK The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At t...
MARKUS ZUSAK Well, this is basically the end, so the answers should be in these next few pages. I doubt they will...
MARKUS ZUSAK Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growi...
MARKUS ZUSAK I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that...
MARKUS PERSSON It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he ha...
MARKUS ZUSAK I thought for a moment about the dog. Miffy. I guess no matter how much Rube and I complained about ...
MARKUS ZUSAK ... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
MARKUS ZUSAK ***A SMALL THEORY***
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and its ends, bu...
MARKUS ZUSAK The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of h...
MARKUS ZUSAK A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A rea...
MARKUS ZUSAK My mouth opened.
It happened.
Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. MARKUS ZUSAK I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figurin...
MARKUS PERSSON It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on...
MARKUS ZUSAK Awkward.
That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of ...
MARKUS ZUSAK When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.
MARKUS ZUSAK I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn...
MARKUS ZUSAK When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar term...
MARKUS PERSSON The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids ha...
MARKUS ZUSAK The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because...
MARKUS BARTH Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 It i...
MARKUS BARTH Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 It seems clear that those people who p...
MARKUS BARTH Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the co...
MARKUS PERSSON I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' w...
MARKUS PERSSON A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particu...
MARKUS ZUSAK It’s a small story really, about, among other things:
* A girl
* Some words
MARKUS ZUSAK A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at...
MARKUS ZUSAK I am haunted by humans.
MARKUS ZUSAK Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you'...
MARKUS ZUSAK Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
...
MARKUS ZUSAK One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
MARKUS ZUSAK People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
MARKUS ZUSAK A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?
MARKUS ZUSAK She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.
MARKUS ZUSAK My heart is so tired
MARKUS ZUSAK The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]...
MARKUS ZUSAK His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and...
MARKUS ZUSAK How about a kiss, Saumensch?"
He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments l...
MARKUS ZUSAK If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laug...
MARKUS ZUSAK Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometim...
MARKUS ZUSAK A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
MARKUS ZUSAK Even death has a heart.
MARKUS ZUSAK I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her a...
MARKUS ZUSAK It kills me sometimes, how people die.
MARKUS ZUSAK Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
MARKUS ZUSAK I haven't had much contact with Mayer. I don't know what he has done wrong now or why he shouldn't c...
MARKUS GANDLER I just don't understand what is going on here. We have nothing to do with Walter Mayer.
MARKUS GANDLER Summer came.
For the book thief, everything was going nicely.
For me, the sky was the colo...
MARKUS ZUSAK I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? I...
MARKUS ZUSAK 'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I...
MARKUS PERSSON There are still some significant differences of opinion. But a century ago, pacifists were guilty of...
MARKUS FURRER Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Face...
MARKUS PERSSON