“The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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“But you're kind of like a great book…you know, you pick up a book at the bookstore because it has a beautiful… — Miranda Kenneally Copy Share Image
If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines… — William Klein Copy Share Image
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching, — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
Life just took another turn in my books...its a chapter that makes u go wow didn't see that happening but gotta keep… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
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Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
“According to my father, the greatest happiness in life was to marry the girl you'd spent your youth reading books with in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I felt as if my own personality was changing shades or even as if I had no personality. I was a blank… — R.P. Heaven Copy Share Image
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He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“CHAPTER ONE: AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE FROM SIN “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you… — Stephen Domena Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image