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Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some happy and some very exciting. But if you never turn the page,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
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I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
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Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
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I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
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If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill,… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
I love massive books: books so big, like bricks, you could drown yourself in a pool with them if you're not careful. — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
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It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
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