Book Quote by John Clute Download Open image “Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)” — John Clute ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Dream
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All of the other books in the series... none of them are particularly like 'Ender's Game.' — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out… — Barbara Rosenblat Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
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Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it… — John Clute Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves. — John Clute Copy Share Image
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Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science… — John Clute Copy Share Image
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by… — John Clute Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image