Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The hardest bits of my book to read were the easiest bits to write because they were the most immediate. Probably because… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
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The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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“This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Snowbound up here with you. Without books or business to occupy my time, I wonder what I’ll do,” he added with a… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the… — H. E. Bates Copy Share Image
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“You can quit pretending. She’s outside.” Anders glanced up innocently from the book. “What makes you think I was pretending?” “Well, it’s… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“God is the Master Author of your life. He has written every page of your life story in His eternal book. It's… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
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To play this iconic character from this historically wonderful series of books - who wouldn't take that opportunity and be happy about… — Kristian Nairn Copy Share Image
“Decade's reading had justified his guess that men and women perceive love identically save for, say, five percent. Reading books by men… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
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One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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I read the books the day before I had met with the director Catherine Hardwicke. The first I heard of it was… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
When God says YES, nobody can say no. It does not take God 24hrs to change a man's story. Mordecai was a… — Akaro Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
