“It's nice to know in my life Jesus is behind me. There have been times when I thought that I was going… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
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The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that… — LouAnne Johnson Copy Share Image
“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
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Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
When books come out on religion today, what are they about, well, Noah's Ark or when we go to heaven, does our… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day.… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
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When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
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