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What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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There's a book called 'You're Not a Stranger Here' by Adam Haslett - short stories, a lot of them are about mental… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
We Need To Talk About Kevin,' as an adaptation, was pretty major. It's a long book, and it's in letters, so it… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of… — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
There is huge money to be made - by candidates, by book publishers, by merchandise peddlers - from small-dollar conservative consumers who… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
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Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
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You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I read Matt Ruff's book, that was my first encounter with learning about sundown towns, and I was like 'What?' Like,… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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