One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be… — Ken Marino Copy Share Image
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What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read… — David Shields Copy Share Image
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You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
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“People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
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I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of… — Chris Raschka Copy Share Image
I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
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I agree with a lot of the points in Taleb's book, but I don't agree with many of his conclusions. It seems… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
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The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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There is no book-learning culture in Cambodia. People do not read. The children do not read in school. Educators must come up… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research… — David Liss Copy Share Image
If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
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