I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds. — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
“horror MUST stimulate the reader’s mental pressure points more effectively and more consistently than other genres.” — Joe Mynhardt Copy Share Image
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“One of the things we haven’t mentioned about the boss so far in this book is his presence. Any time Donald Trump… — Corey R. Lewandowski Copy Share Image
[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
“Rudestam and Newton’s (2001, p. 58) words, “by the end of the literature review, the reader should be able to conclude that… — Phillip Chong Ho Shon Copy Share Image
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Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure… — Will C. Barnes Copy Share Image
I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I'm pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It's definitely like a giant book with different stories… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
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“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience! — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating. — Ryan O'Neal Copy Share Image
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One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose — Nusrat Sultana Copy Share Image
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
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I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby.… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special. — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have written the only diet book that I believe needs to exist, and here it is: CHAPTER ONE: Eat a bit… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
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