The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I… — Saladin Ahmed Copy Share Image
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
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Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness… It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
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[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
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