My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of the problems I'll have… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
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I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In Shadow and Bone,' Alina's race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they… — Giuseppe Borgese Copy Share Image
If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
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If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
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Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“[...] in other words, an idealist and determinist covenant with what had been and what was manifest in every nail, piece of… — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. /… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
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writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to… — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
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I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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“Drugs and Alcohol, although a crutch, have been the downfall of some of our greatest authors, artists & performers. These mind altering,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Victoria Devane," she said aloud. "I'm Victoria." Her lips moved in countless repetitions of the sounds... her name, her real name. It… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
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