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This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
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It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
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The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories -… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
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I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
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It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to… — Steve Kerr Copy Share Image
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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