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Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them. Jeff Giles

Cats Finished Build Reading Our Books Finally Giddy At Least One One Thing Constantly Touch Take Towers Pictures Least Dogs Get Authors Common Which Them Thing Copies

Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead. Jeff Giles

Some Outlandish Take Instead Occasionally Salaries Cut Gross Actor

'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell. Jeff Giles

Independent booksellers tend to have good taste and big mouths. Jeff Giles

Good Good Taste Big Independent Tend Taste Mouths

The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah. Jeff Giles

'Bottle Rocket' is an underdog. Jeff Giles

Bottle Underdog Rocket

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true. Jill Abramson

Women True Idea Journalists Taste Different Stories Sensibility Bring

I don't pretend I know everything. Jill Abramson

Everything Pretend Know

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain. Jill Abramson

Big Libraries Had Sustain Public User

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed. Jill Abramson

News Me Political College About More Consumed Students Journalism Course How Than Did Taught Where Them Two Universities

Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting. Jill Abramson

Sad Work Reality Dangerous Collective Journalists Budget Budget Cuts Most Concerned Reduce Am Doing Reporting Often Expensive Cuts Who Muscle

I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind. Jill Abramson

Work Me Mind Pay Pay Attention Weekends Attention Always iPhone

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more. Jill Abramson

More Voice Nobody Authority Any Wants

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past. Jill Abramson

Frustration Events Past Mine Spent Someone Investigative Journalism Involves Always Been Lot Confess Reporter In The Past Much Who Her Career

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen. Jill Abramson

Remember Feeling Jobs Times Get Wanted Really

I have green eyes, which are actually quite difficult to find makeup for. Joanna Coles

Eyes Difficult Find Makeup Green Quite Which Actually

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life. Joanna Coles

Life Work Time Home Earth My Time Look Anthropology Social

When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information. Joanna Coles

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