Everyone knows that Amazon.com sells lots of books. In fact, a recent Los Angeles Times article reports the Seattle-based company now accounts for 22 percent of the total U.S. book sales for key stores, thumping rivals Barnes & Noble and …
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner -
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain -
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
Anne Lamott
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“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”
Patricia Marx
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