When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
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There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your… — James Frey Copy Share Image
If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher… — Nestor Carbonell Copy Share Image
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The Bible in itself is not the Word of God. The Word of God is a person. Neither does the Bible have… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image
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I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
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First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge… — Bruce Pavitt Copy Share Image
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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
I don't like the way most people think. It's imprecise. I find that when parents ask me questions, they ask very imprecise… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
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I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
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The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
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The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
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