In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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Some kids like books, some kids like movies, but for me, every year I still go back and play 'Legend of Zelda.'… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
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“I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Eternal love. Mostly it was with reference with legendary love stories from books, like Leyla-Majnun, Shirin-Farhad, Heer-Ranjha, Romeo-Juliet and Yusuf-Zulaika, but never… — Raj Doctor Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read… — Stevan V. Nikolic Copy Share Image
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I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“The importance of condition in a book is much the same as condition in a used automobile. A used Ford in fine… — Robert A. Wilson Copy Share Image
I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book,… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
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“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head.… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
“This is my second paragliding photo book. Flying photography really drives my life, which is a never-ending search as every day, in… — Jérôme Maupoint Copy Share Image
“More seriously-and this is probably why there has been a lot of garbage talked about a lost generation-it was easy to see,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I think Alice Miller's Drama of the Gifted Child is one of the books read by nearly every therapist. Everyone's jaw drops… — Ryan Howes Copy Share Image
Somebody asked meh- Broda What is FAce BooK? (earlier it was original, real but now a days its just a Fake- book..isn't?… — Raghav Singh Copy Share Image
I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
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There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked… — B.V. Larson Copy Share Image
“The rural, mid-19th-century dialect, coupled with the author's interest in ethnobotany, roots the story deeply in the houses, forests, gardens, and even… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre:… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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