Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
No one is putting comic book writers on the cover of Entertainment Weekly or Vanity Fair. No one cares whether we have… — John Rozum Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . .… — Alan Cheuse Copy Share Image
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Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often… — Gary Frank Copy Share Image
What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
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Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
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Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK… — Fergus McCann Copy Share Image
I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike… — Victor Null Copy Share Image
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