I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
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I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
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No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
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You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the… — Lindsay Pearce Copy Share Image
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I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
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In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions,… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
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Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if… — Rachel Renée Russell Copy Share Image
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Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
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Of course there are a lot of books that are interesting to make movies out of, but on the other hand, I… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
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Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image