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In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that… — Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a… — Charles M. Schulz
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them… — Ray Bradbury
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''… — Neil Gaiman
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught… — C.S. Lewis
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who… — Helene Hanff
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I… — Ray Bradbury
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an… — David Wroblewski
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely… — Mao Zedong
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or… — Rick Riordan
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high… — Laurie Halse Anderson
We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only… — Jack Canfield
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on… — Rick Riordan
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said… — Steven Millhauser
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and… — A. S. Byatt
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line,… — Alberto Manguel
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or… — Anne Lamott
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang… — George Eliot
I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip… — Michael Jackson
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.… — Nora Ephron
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject,… — Jodi Picoult
You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love? — Nora Roberts

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