Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“The publication of Doctor Zhivago in the West in 1957 and the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Boris Pasternak… — Peter Finn Copy Share Image
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“The dignity and energy of the Roman character, conspicuous in war and in politics, were not easily tamed and adjusted to the… — The Richmond Enquirer 1850s Copy Share Image
Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
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When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
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I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
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My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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I have a team. Everyday I wake up and I put on the uniform: mistakes, regret, what could've been; and if I… — Nathan Scott Copy Share Image
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No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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