The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide… — David Selbourne Copy Share Image
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I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I think there really is no other way to write a long, serious novel. You work, shelve it for a while, work,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
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In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery.… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
The Bible may be more than an ordinary human book but it's not less, and the same principles therefore apply in interpreting… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas,… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
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I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
“Knowing people can mean so many things. It's like books: there are plenty of gradations between the books one has read and… — Cécile David-Weill Copy Share Image
The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We all hygger: gathered around a table for a shared meal or beside a fire on a dark night, when we sit… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
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When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Now you've done it." His tone was quietly playful. I couldn't help it.I looked up at him questioningly. "You've added a third… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end… — Ernst Bacon Copy Share Image
I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
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I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me,… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
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This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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