Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
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Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Some kids like books, some kids like movies, but for me, every year I still go back and play 'Legend of Zelda.'… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
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Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've got one of Darwin's books at home and some of that stuff is pretty damn funny. Some of his stuff is… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
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