I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
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The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching, — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end? — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
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I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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