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It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
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I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
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... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
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If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
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video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen Copy Share Image
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
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I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it… — Vicky Hartzler Copy Share Image
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
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