I am very happily employed as a full-time software engineer; I travel a lot, and I write books along with this here… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
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I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
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I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading!… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
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I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up… — Maud Newton Copy Share Image
“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She attended the French performance, but the play's content now had a connection to her life. She read a book and the… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The issue is that my book, and so many others, are not available for pre-order from Amazon. I hadn't realized how much… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
“If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust, If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
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Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I’m… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader,… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
“As she slowly came to, the princess, fascinated, gazed at the card, and this time her haggard eyes grew wide with astonishment.… — Marcel Allain Copy Share Image
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
