Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
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If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Books Fall Open Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been. Hear voices not once heard before, Reach world… — David McCord Copy Share Image
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
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“The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“[W]e are changed by what we read. Close that book, and you are not the same person anymore. Because of what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I really dislike when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental. As a writer, you don't know what the… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
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