Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
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There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
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Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Book culture has also become something that's kind of incredible to younger people now, because of the Internet. If you go to… — Jim Walrod Copy Share Image
I believe that the mainstream publishers, DC and Marvel, need to catch up as well. Out of the fifty-odd books that are… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
Martin Scorsese and I first met over Zoom; then I met with both Marty and Leonardo DiCaprio, but I never read the… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
The sign was spray-painted in Arabic and English, probably from some attempt by the farmer to sell his wares in the market.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I report when science clashes with the Bible story and when it reinforces it. Then I let the readers chew on it.… — Stephen M. Miller Copy Share Image
“I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
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I think of all media, television is the most powerful when it comes to selling books, because when you have a feature… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
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I don't read reviews or take any feedback from anyone. Here's the thing: The stories don't even care what I think about… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I… — Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Copy Share Image
I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor… — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away… — Helon Habila Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Seal the Deal, more than a traditional book, is a series of powerful coaching sessions dealing with a big breakdown that many… — Julio Olalla Copy Share Image
Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me,… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
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We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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