I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write,… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I didn't want to play in the reserves. It was the wrong attitude. I could have trained for myself, so when I… — Patrick van Aanholt Copy Share Image
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
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Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Your skin isn't paper don't cut it your face isn't a mask don't care it your size isn't a book don't judge… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe… — Fred Chappell Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
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“381 On the question of being understandable.— One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most of my readers think I'm obsessed with time management, but they haven't seen the other - much more legitimate, much more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to "impute" - to understand that people do judge a book by its cover -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be… — Sjon Copy Share Image
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I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
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I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books… — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
