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So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
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One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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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
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
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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
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
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
I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
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“In approved places, every story serves a purpose. But forbidden books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I wouldn't classify television as "cool," because to me anything that involves the reader's consciousness to drive and carry a story is… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
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I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
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when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
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