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I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
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Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
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A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
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Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children. — John Waters Copy Share Image
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With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a book, and I'm warned, 'Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,' or, 'It has to… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated." "I'll throw this table at… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or… — Adi Shankar Copy Share Image
The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
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And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even… — T.A. Barron Copy Share Image
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
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If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all… — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
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