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Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's… — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them.… — George Burns Copy Share Image
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Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
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Stop trying to be author of your romantic fate...let the universe kick in and lend a hand. Not only will you end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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