You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
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The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
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My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I… — Saladin Ahmed Copy Share Image
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
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Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
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