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I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
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A lot of writing is everybody being revealed, but the reader should feel like only they are being revealed. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli" or, "According to the ability of the reader, every book has its own destiny.” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
I teach kids to read on a Saturday for this charity called Real Action. It's a voluntary school because lots of the… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
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As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
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In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous… — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.” — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
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To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character. — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else? — Eric Hill Copy Share Image
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What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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