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Curiously, for all the outpourings of scholarship on Theodore Roosevelt, no one had written a book focused directly on his leadership approach,… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
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Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
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A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
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The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
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Jon Land writes great fiction, and Betrayal reads like the best of it. The fact that it's true makes the story all… — Robert Leuci Copy Share Image
Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
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The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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