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In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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When my wife was pregnant, she got very upset with me because I didnt read the baby books. She looked at that,… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
“She wanted to read things -- could not resist wanting to read things -- and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Maps help us in tracking our cabs - if they're idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip.… — Bhavish Aggarwal Copy Share Image
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The pen touches the paper again at the bottom of the page and I freeze as he draws a slow, thick line… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was,… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“The Three-Decker "The three-volume novel is extinct." Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail. It cost a watch to steer… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“The Faerie Queene was intended by its author to be a philosophical poem and was so regarded by his contemporaries and immediate… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“And everything we know about time, everything we can know about time, comes from the study of clocks. Time, Clocks and Relativity… — Trevelyan Copy Share Image
There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Franz Schulze’s book “Fantastic Images” had a lot of impact on me. Mark Pascale turned me on to that book when I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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“Children learn from the world through doing, touching, experiencing; adults on the other hand, tend to take in the world through their… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
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Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects.… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
