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You cannot open a book without learning something

Quote by Confucius about knowledge, contentment

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Quote by Maya Angelou about books, habits, children, good, good luck

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about habits, research, writing, history, love

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.

Quote by Lester Bangs about writers, nothing

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about problems, contentment

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about contentment

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.

Quote by Jim Bakker about writing, time

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

Quote by Al Alvarez about commerce

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid...

Quote by George W. Bush about decline, mistake, parents, thinking, school, home, music

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Quote by Barbara Taylor Bradford about fiction, woman

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about world

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Quote by Orson Scott about fiction, time, work, contentment

Dali worked his way into the book because he seemed to have worked his way into New York City during those years.

Quote by Michael Chabon about city

Having chosen to set the book during this period, from the first day I was writing, I knew I was going to have to do something about World War Two.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writing, war, day, world

It grew very organically. I allowed all these streams to enter the book because they felt as though they needed to.

Quote by Michael Chabon

It was a little scary because a similar thing had happened with Fountain City, the failed novel, all sorts of disparate themes running together; in that book I trusted my instincts but it didn't work. I couldn't get it to hang together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about city, work, things

That makes Joe pretty unusual among comic book artists of his time, though there were a couple, the foremost among them being Will Eisner, a brilliant artist and a very talented storyteller.

Quote by Michael Chabon about artists, couple, being, time

That was the flash: I was going to write about comic book creators in the 1940s.

Quote by Michael Chabon

When I started writing about the golem, I trusted that it belonged in the book just as I trusted that escape artistry belonged.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writing

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Quote by Agatha Christie about books, writing, worry, people