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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
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Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
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When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
You dont know what goes on in anyones life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a persons… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
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“Although many reviews have compared my novels to those written by Garrison Keillor, Phil Gulley, or Jan Karon, I personally try to… — Gail Fraser Copy Share Image
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English;… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
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“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has… — LeGrand Richards Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
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But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor"… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I could not have written this book the way I wanted to without the insight of one such friend, Brent Dempsey. Thank… — Julie James Copy Share Image
I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
“Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image