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I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
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“After a first novel—"Racing in the Rain" (2012)— introducing a Caribbean, steaming in post-colonial turbulence, Ken Puddicombe follows up with Junta, another… — MiddleRoad Publishers Copy Share Image
I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
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“Bejah zauzet čitanjem i pisanjem, kad grunu u moju sobu velik broj tih ljudi naoružanih neznanjem tupim kao batina i mržnjom oštrom… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
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Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“Dale Spender coined the ‘one third rule’ in her book Man-Made Language. As soon as women are: more than one third of… — Jane Caro Copy Share Image
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
All of us truth is different; because we all think different and some of us even have different religion. Our choices that… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Meadowlark Lemon's book Trust Your Next Shot is written by a remarkable person. I have had the pleasure of knowing Meadowlark for… — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
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“The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
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“Paolo and Francesca were not ideal readers since they confess to Dante that after the first kiss they read no more. Ideal… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“In my classes, we read great fiction obsessively, and then attempt to see how a writer managed to affect us. We try… — Dean Bakopoulos Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
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The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image