“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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When I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
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I have 52 excerpts of books that I sometimes give players when I want to reach them and then hundreds of quotes. — Jesse Marsch Copy Share Image
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned,… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
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It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their… — Eliza Acton Copy Share Image
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“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
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