The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it's going. They ask, 'Jason, are you… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I read the 'Kapoor & Sons' script in a half hour, forty five minutes. Not because I skimming through it... I read… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction… — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
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Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
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Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
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Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
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Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
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If we're not counting kids' movies - because my kid is constantly watching The Jungle Book - I would have to say… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
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The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio. — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
I am only human.Perfect in my imperfections.My mistakes help mold me but they do not define me.Don't judge my book cover if… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
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