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And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
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I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
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...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift… — Ryukishi07 Copy Share Image
I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
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I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would… — William Moseley Copy Share Image
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I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or… — Bienvenido Lumbera Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says,… — Karen A. Wyle Copy Share Image
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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
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Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
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