No one is putting comic book writers on the cover of Entertainment Weekly or Vanity Fair. No one cares whether we have… — John Rozum Copy Share Image
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I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
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Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written.… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Reader! Are you with the man-stealers in sympathy and purpose, or on the side of their down-trodden victims? If with the former,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No, you have been brought up with the lies that books have told you, and granted they are far more comforting and… — Kane X. Faucher Copy Share Image
Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of… — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The wise interpreter allows his knowledge of genres to control how he approaches each biblical passage. In this way, he can accurately… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“The first three years of our marriage were miserable. Until I got a divorce. A divorce from loving myself and seeking my… — Phil Callaway Copy Share Image
“So does it say how to destroy Horcruxes in that book?” “Yes,” said Hermione, now turning the fragile pages as if examining… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Chance or accident is not responsible for the things that happen to you, nor is predestined fate the author of your fortune… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts… — Evelyn Lau Copy Share Image
“In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
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I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
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