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Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
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Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
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“I haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter… — Jean-Paul Sarte Copy Share Image
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
All the Enid Blyton books - they opened my eyes to a bunch of kids living a life that was so far… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.” — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
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The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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“The bookcase tipped and the book covers opened like wings over an underbelly of white feathers, dirty with ink.” — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
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In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
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“Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke. — Rachel Perry Copy Share Image
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