I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
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Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that… — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally,… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
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The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
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Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the… — Bruce Davison Copy Share Image
I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
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