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“I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!” — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
People only like me because I'm pretty. guys think of girls like a book. if the cover doesn't catch their eyes, they… — Shaylee Copy Share Image
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“he's got more heavies out looking for you than are on the books of Weight Watchers” — David Clark Copy Share Image
I was such a huge fan of Harry Potter books. That's how I got into it. I had never really thought about… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Hufflepuff is my favorite house in some ways. There comes a point in the book where each house has a chance to… — JK Rowling Copy Share Image
“The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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“The Pakistani film International Gorillay (International guerillas), produced by Sajjad Gul, told the story of a group of local heroes - of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
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I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
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Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
I did not know much about 'Black Lightning' beforehand, but I always wanted to play a superhero. After getting the part, I… — Nafessa Williams Copy Share Image
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I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I never want to co-write. People never just write a quarter of a book, do they? I don't think you can get… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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“There are three things a man must do before he dies: plant a tree, father a child, and write a book.” — Rick Skwiot Copy Share Image
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
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I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
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Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West… — Gerald Haslam Copy Share Image
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