I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer. — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
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All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
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I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
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What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
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“This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
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The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
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A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of… — Mark David Chapman Copy Share Image
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