I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the greatest album ever. There's no greatest book, greatest human, greatest movie. At a push, the closest… — Richard Norris Copy Share Image
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
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I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
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“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
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Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
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