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Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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Sometimes we'll walk into a set, and I'll think, 'Oh, this film doesn't look like this.' You know, 'cause I read the… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
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All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
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'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
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Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from… — Anne Hegerty Copy Share Image
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