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Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson The Names by Don DeLillo The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow The Town by William Faulkner The Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
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Ryan’s Quotes

Samuel R. Delany
“Statistically, you've got a better chance of going to Hollywood and becoming a superstar in the movies than you do of becoming a successful writer.”
― Samuel R. Delany
tags: authors-on-writing, writers, writing
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Franz Kafka
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka
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American Pastoral by Philip RothThe Ghost Writer by Philip RothThe Counterlife by Philip RothOperation Shylock by Philip RothSabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
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Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, and Science fiction


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