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My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
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read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
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A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
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Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
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Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
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Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
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“the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
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I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“An elegantly crafted novel, "The Reluctant First Lady" clearly documents author Venita Ellick as an exceptionally accomplished writer able to skillfully weave… — Midwest Book Review August 2013 Copy Share Image
“It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said. 'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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