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Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I shouldn't have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn't have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn't… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on… — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
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I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies,… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
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In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In searching for further training we turned to England and Bernard Leach. We thought since we had responded to his book so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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