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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
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P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
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Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not… — Gloria Anzaldua Copy Share Image
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
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There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
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We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
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When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
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