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Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
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The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the… — Cecil Roth Copy Share Image
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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I did more research into the police procedure. I worked out with SWAT guys and ex- and active military guys, and consulted… — Tim Kang Copy Share Image
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A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
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I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I've also never written about home in this way before. I guess a lot of it is subconscious and I am intuitively… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Books are a really fun way to get yourself in a certain mindset or mood as an actress. Also, the way people… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
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He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read… — James Boswell Copy Share Image