The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
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The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A… — Sune Bergstrom Copy Share Image
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This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
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I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying… — Sjon Copy Share Image
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In Because, Joseph Riippi says he wants this book to be ‘a love letter, a prayer, a purge’ but it actually becomes… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
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“The books in the tote bag banged against her side as she pushed her bike, bringing her back to the present. The… — Jenn McKinlay Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time… — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
For Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he came to me and said, "I want to do everything that's in the book, and… — John August Copy Share Image
Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
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I'm gonna write a book. I'm going to explain over the past 30 years of my life of things that I endured… — Ken Shamrock Copy Share Image
Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
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I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like.… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M.… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
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