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It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“I said, "Thank you. Go the Saints. Goodbye." Go the Saints; I'd said it. The first time. It felt like...coming out.” — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself… — Peter Temple 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
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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
