Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“I think about her. I think about the first time I saw her.. I had a book in my hand and I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
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Flatland was a great book...Edwin Abbot. I gotta say, I went nuts over A Brief History of Time, the Stephen Hawking book.… — Seth Macfarlane Copy Share Image
One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy.… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
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I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
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The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“This week we'll be learning about key elements of high quality picture books. Using the award winner lists in our course materials,… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
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I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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