The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
What drove me to do 'Dead Wake' was that after doing the most preliminary of reading and scoping out what kinds of… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , which Smith published in 1776, is the most… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor?… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché “Write what you know.” It is very much a… — Stephen Koch Copy Share Image
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me,… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes,… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think the secret to success is a short-term outlook. So for example, I'm writing the next Killing book now and I… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Preparing the animation is close to the comic book process but there are plenty of problems. It's very interesting, but it's also… — Joann Sfar Copy Share Image
I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
When you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film.… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
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Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
This book, 'Free bird', is so entangled with politics. I wanted to channel my own internal political monologue in some way to… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground.… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Comics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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