I read 'Carrie' when I was younger and that's one of my favourite books. — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I'm tired of writing exams for marks. I want to start writing books for sell. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
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I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
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I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
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One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I'm very English really. I even ordered a book on the internet, 'how to have absolutely nothing to do with your neighbors'.… — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
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All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
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All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. — Brooks Robinson Copy Share Image
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