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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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“In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book.… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
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“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
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This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
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All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
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[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
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I love everything about the comic business: hunting for rare books, talking to other people who are passionate about comics... I love… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
“the late historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch in his book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. His… — John Fea Copy Share Image
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“the kid can learn, but he only wants to do one thing at a time. He could spend days on end hunched… — Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson Copy Share Image
I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which… — Mike Lupica Copy Share Image
![“[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that…” quote by Max Pam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/max-pam-75748_amazing-woman_my-photography-teacher-gave-me-the-mexic_670029.jpg)
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