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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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Book Everything is Flammable is an odd format though, not quite a diary and not quite a memoir. I was working on… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My parents bookshelves were full of books that belonged to their lives in the Communist party. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke. — Jory John Copy Share Image
The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible. — Louis B. Mayer Copy Share Image
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
