I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
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We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction… — Saul David Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“What shall I do, today? Visit the pub? Sit down in a garden with a book? A bird flies past. Where is… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
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You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
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Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales… — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
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Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see… — Russ Wilcox Copy Share Image
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A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“I couldn't picture heaven. How could a place be any good at all if it didn't have the things there you enjoyed… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
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Not one piece of evidence has ever been found to support the Book of Mormon-not a trace of the large cities it… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
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The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live;… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
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