I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern.… — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Copy Share Image
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For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
A'ja allowed me to be a part of her open book. Honestly, I didn't know the depths of where she could go.… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
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I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
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Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“I dare say, my remark came from the professional feeling of there being nothing like leather. [Mr. Hale--about books; reminding me of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When I finally accepted a full time job, I saw that as giving up on my artistic dreams. But three years later,… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
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![“A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By…” quote by Maureen Corrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4e/maureen-corrigan-30260_academic_a-hilarious-academic-novel-that-ll-send_1173622.png)
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