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Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
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Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
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People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
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“use His tricks for our purposes. In his book, The Abolition of Man, C.S Lewis grasped this phenomenon with uncanny insight, writing:” — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
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