When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Success is just hanging out with my kids. I mean, I always say if you have options, you're rich. To me, success… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
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I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve… — Hiroyuki Hirano Copy Share Image
It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
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The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen… — L. J. Smith Copy Share Image
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do… — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the… — Buddhadasa Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
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Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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