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Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
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While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Although logging workouts seems to be a very simple action, it is often forgotten. Once several days go by, it is hard… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
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The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Teachers try to teach me things in books but I learn better by experience. That's what life is anyways, a experience. I… — Jenna Bognar Copy Share Image
America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass.… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest.… — Shauna James Ahern Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
You shouldn't think of these movies as being 'The Lord of the Rings.' The Lord of the Rings is, and always will… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around."… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
I admired Mary's work very much. From the time someone gave me 'The Liars' Club,' I immediately went into a world where… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image