I don't write poems with a purpose in mind, but I'd hope that some readers would find their experiences mirrored or articulated… — Deborah Landau Copy Share Image
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I want my books to exist in the literary world, not only in the art world. I am interested in having a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I… — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
“Margaux looks around the table; this is not working. All of a sudden she's thinking about a safe room, something she's only… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
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I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I… — Rose McIver Copy Share Image
It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash… — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of… — Burt Ward Copy Share Image
Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
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Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
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Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
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The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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