Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out… — Kate Grenville Copy Share Image
It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness...… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart,… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“He also entered a bookstore called “Books ‘n’ Stuff,” that stocked more videos and greeting cards than books. Furthermore, its supermarket lighting… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“No creas que estoy enfadada contigo. Sólo estoy triste. Por que tú has sido muy amable conmigo, y, a cambio, no he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“But for me to start the journey of writing a book about my life, the first place I had to re visit… — Christian S. Simpson Copy Share Image
I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“All the pictures in this book are authentic, vintage found photographs, and with the exception of a few that have undergone minimal… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
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