“She had thought him a fighter, just a fighter. And in her foolishness, she had thought him perceptive. Had even admired him… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
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I was merely a child when I opened a book 9a scroll to be more specific). What I read within those lines… — Daegus (43rd King Of Atlantis Copy Share Image
Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
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By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
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If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
If you are identified with certain opinions and an ability to express them, and if you can build yourself an audience, a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
For me getting paid for art is a class issue. I don't have the luxury not to care. It's great if your… — Nicole Georges Copy Share Image
With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“ Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
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Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
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Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
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