Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
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I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
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I wrote the poems in Charms Against Lightning one by one, over almost a decade, and I did not write them toward… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
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[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
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![“Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It’s the writer’s job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside.” quote by Thomas Canty](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c86/thomas-canty-282874_art_books-should-be-like-magical-jewelled-bo_1775917.jpg)
![“The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit.” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b50/bruce-springsteen-546_bob_the-things-that-i-loved-about-bob-s-dyla_520784.jpg)
![“[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.” quote by Madame de Stael](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/599/madame-de-stael-2069_believe_moralistic-novels-are-at-the-same-disadv_558158.jpg)
![“It hardly mattered to him that [his] book was forgotten and that it served no use; and the question of its worth at any time seemed almost trivial...He let his fingers riffle through the pages and felt a tingling, as if those pages were alive… The fingers loosened, and the book they had held moved…” quote by John Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ffd/john-williams-3311_books_it-hardly-mattered-to-him-that-his-book_1311508.jpg)
