Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
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The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
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Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me,… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
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“The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.” — Stephanie Lovett Stoffel Copy Share Image
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city. — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
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I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut. — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
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