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The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
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The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
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I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
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A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
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