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I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
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My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
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I try to learn as much as I can and try to - I haven't really read any books in my entire… — Viktor Hovland Copy Share Image
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I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's… — James Murray Copy Share Image
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“Religious language,” write the authors of Soul Searching, “is like any other language: to learn how to speak it, one needs first… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible… — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
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