Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or… — Bienvenido Lumbera Copy Share Image
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Read this first volume and you'll want to finish the next two--300,000 words in total--with the first 90,000 setting the stage for… — Frank Audrain Copy Share Image
Overall your reveiw was intelligent and thorough. We have to remember however horror novels are not textbooks of theology. In Coppola's 1992… — Dilip Copy Share Image
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You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings. — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The investors who generate big returns over five years, the guys they write books about, are supposed to keep winning, right? Well,… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
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I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I… — William Holmes McGuffey Copy Share Image
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
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I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
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Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. — Katharine Kerr Copy Share Image
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I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
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