I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
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I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
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There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
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Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
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I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
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In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
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“I write to teach myself, explore myself, inspire myself (in which I always fail), analyze myself, clear myself (in how much deep… — Ovais Khalid Copy Share Image
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
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Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I was in the final year of my English Literature degree at Hindu College, Delhi University, when I came to Mumbai. I… — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life,… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“God's word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
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