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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Closing the book, Winnie scowled and said, “Why do you have to be so… so…” she trailed off, unable to think of… — Tim O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world.… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The reader, like his fellows, doubtless prefers action to reflection, and doubtless he is wholly in the right. So we shall get… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“I love the way you eat pizza – always picking off the pepperoni and piling it up in the corner of your… — Heather Mar-Gerrison Copy Share Image
Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your… — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
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I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
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“for God's sake, let's be done with the hypocrisy of claiming "I am a biblical literalist" when everyone is a selective literalist,… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“Falco wagged her journal in front of her. "This is yours, I presume." A slow smile spread across his face. "Let's find… — Fiona Paul Copy Share Image
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Alan Loy McGinnis, author of the best-selling The Friendship Factor, says that America’s leading psychologists and therapists estimate that only 10 percent… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
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“You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
“Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and keeping, one way or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Also, there is a dedicated community of people in the world who will always be able to connect with each other across… — Nina George Copy Share Image