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I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
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Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt.… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I write to remind myself of the pain. My words represents the tears that have fell, the paper resembles the words and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that my dad was grappling with towards the end was how that shift had happened… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“You, the reader, make the book, but the book does not in itself exist between these decomposing covers. You read the script,… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the… — Hailey Gates Copy Share Image
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Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
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I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
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Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that… — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
“All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I made some changes, I didn't go around telling everybody I was ready to make changes, I just remained me. I may… — Reginald Arvizu Copy Share Image
It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“As Narrative (Novel, Passion), love is a story which is accomplished, in the sacred sense of the word: it is a program… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
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