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When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

Kevin Young

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The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.

John D'Agata

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TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.

Andrea Seigel

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Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

Tommy Lee

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Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Roger Corman

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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

Robert E. Howard

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It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Rivers Cuomo

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I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.

Roscoe Mitchell

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Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Lloyd Kaufman

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Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.

Jason Kander

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It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Deborah Eisenberg

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When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy.

Claire Messud

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