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I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
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There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which,… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“Without Lydia’s partnership, this book would still be lingering somewhere in the space between my head and my hard drive. Sharon Ellis… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
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I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
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I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading.… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
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The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
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I was just so intrigued with good stories from the time I was a little girl. When my parents would take us… — Anna Gunn Copy Share Image
“When we see, we do so many things: we experience what is happening in a direct way; we discover something we never… — Donis A. Dondis Copy Share Image
I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God,… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
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Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The only reason why I don't win is because of a bad decision, misjudged the wind, misjudged the read on the greens… — Bryson DeChambeau Copy Share Image
I've been trying to make my bed every day. Every time I wake up, I try and - someone told me there's… — Xander Schauffele Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life,… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
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Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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