I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
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Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society -… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“ Hey,Alex." I composed the words in my head. " I have your book..." D'oh.I would be standing there, holding his book.… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except—hey presto!—when the protagonist feels like… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented,… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“The room was a library. Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a collection of books belonging to Justice… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after… — William F. Albright Copy Share Image
“My writing, on the other hand, is always done with my readers in mind. I never write for my own amusement. I… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
“It is beneficial to consider the origins of "riddle." The Old English rædelse means "opinion, conjure" which is related to the Old… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“Many readers are familiar with the spirit and the letter of the definition of “prayer,” as given by Ambrose Bierce in his… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
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“After investigating the government for more than two decades and authoring books on its secret programs, it’s been my experience that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My narrative is at an end. I have no comments to make upon the subject of Slavery. Those who read this book… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Every time they ban the book, it becomes national headlines. I sell more books, so it’s actually lucrative for me. We call… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by… — Hillary Carlip Copy Share Image
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