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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
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I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
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I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
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It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
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