What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
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There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
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The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have… — Martin Harris Copy Share Image
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Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
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