I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
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In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
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My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
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“Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis,” he murmured. A disputed book that was based on the idea that all the blood… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
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It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
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Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange. — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to read a lot and do well in school - which is so boring - but I was an overachiever. — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Every word I wrote in my book is documented, certified, true, and correct. The truth wins, and that is my picture. — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
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