I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether… — nick hornby Copy Share Image
“Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.” — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
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The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“Your life is a book. Some have written half-way, some, three-quarter way. You have the opportunity to write and rewrite the book… — Nike Campbell-Fatoki Copy Share Image
In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. Blue, green,… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you… — Matt Cain Copy Share Image
Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
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(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
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I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a 'nose bath' in an old book… — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves. — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration. — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets.… — Sam Fogarino Copy Share Image
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