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My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you might be interested in; then, you need to… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day...I want to be… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
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Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
That was the hardest thing for me. When it was published that I was going to play Tommen, all the fans of… — Dean-Charles Chapman Copy Share Image
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When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
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The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see… — Charles-Francois Dupuis Copy Share Image
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Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
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An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by… — Hillary Carlip Copy Share Image
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
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I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented,… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
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