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People are way too hard on themselves. Comparing yourself to other people can be damaging; the most important thing is just to… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
You couldn't buy any English authors or anything that came from America, like jeans. It was impossible. So we had to do… — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
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Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I moved into the garage at my mom's house, she wouldn't let me into the house, and the garage didn't have any… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Reading to our children and our grandchildren is something we can all try to do every day of the year. Not only… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
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Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
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Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
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Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You have to remember that Shadow and Bone' was the first book I sold. And it was, in fact, the first book… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
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