I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
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The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
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As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
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A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
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The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
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I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
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