It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut… — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
“My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life’s minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
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Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
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Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
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I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
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It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that,… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
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What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
'New Mutants' is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it... That's… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
My favourite books series as a young child was the Frank L. Baum 'Wizard of Oz' series. They were beautifully written, oversized… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
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