In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
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This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
In his exciting debut novel, Jerel Law transports readers to a place where supernatural forces of good and evil collide. Young readers… — Robert Whitlow Copy Share Image
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Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee! — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
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Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
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All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
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