A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
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I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty,… — Countess of Longford Elizabeth Pakenham Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
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Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
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And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
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I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is… — Amadou Hampate Ba Copy Share Image
As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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