I had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
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As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Husband and I are preparing ourselves for the new Doctor by watching - well, mainly rewatching - Mr. Capaldi’s back catalogue, we’ve… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
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I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
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He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content.… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
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It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
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You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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If a person is constantly evolving, constantly reading new material and being exposed to new material and growing in life, then you're… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
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History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through the offers… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on.… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
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You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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![“I had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall…” quote by Bridget Carpenter](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5c3/bridget-carpenter-44527_affected_i-had-been-emotionally-affected-by-the-s_2026458.jpg)
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![“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said. "It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/02b/haruki-murakami-21_book_he-made-it-a-rule-never-to-touch-a-book_1535746.jpg)
