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O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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I have always trusted writers, books, thinkers, psychologists in figuring things out. Maybe because they don't know me, so they are always… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I got the idea for my novel 'Lord of Light' when I cut myself shaving just before I was to go on… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
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If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“St John from the book of The Revelation “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to… — Joseph M. Chiron Copy Share Image
Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing… — Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Copy Share Image
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“That book of [Melancthon], to my mind, deserves not merely to live as long as books are read, but to take its… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
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Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
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I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
I agree that we should regard all books of the Bible as equally inspired - and important. But some come into sharp… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
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