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I think that's the process of filmmaking all the way through: building things and taking it apart and building it, and, you… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
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I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
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The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
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The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through… — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
I think that, now more than ever, young girls need a good role model. My mom always says, 'You are the books… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers… — NisiOisiN Copy Share Image
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
The blonde student went to the library and checked out a book called How to Hump. She got back to her dorm… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image