Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them.… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
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Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. The place to learn about your materials… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
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I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was… — Katherine Hannigan Copy Share Image
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
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The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
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My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
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From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
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