The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
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My first book was about grappling with my identity and transitioning medically and socially as a young person. At that point, it… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
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Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
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Book Everything is Flammable is an odd format though, not quite a diary and not quite a memoir. I was working on… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
The whole of Sheffield seems to be crazy about books. There are festivals and their own book awards, and their own children's… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
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Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would… — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
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Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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