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Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
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There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events,… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
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I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
The fear factor was my greatest challenge with The Whispering Town. How could I portray danger without really frightening the youngest readers… — Jennifer Elvgren Copy Share Image
“A smile fought its way through her expression of pain for a moment, and she said, “Yeah, it really kind of was,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it,… — Marguerite Moreau Copy Share Image
I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
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Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write in a Book What You See') "The phrase that gave us focus was 'a long obedience in the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Writing is… being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
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The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
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I immediately went out and bought a book on anger management. And now I have that book, and I don't know if… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
I think 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a good example of a film where you have to juggle a whole… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image