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Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)” — Eric J. Gates Copy Share Image
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I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking. — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
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I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
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