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Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
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A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is… — John Kremer Copy Share Image
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A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
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I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
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When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
GOD is the author of life. He is the reason why certain things were allowed to happen. He holds destiny.He knows when.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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