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I am a young adult author, and so are quite a few of my friends. We all write books for the same demographic; many of us are even published by the same publishing house. Two of us, in fact, share the same editor.
Rebecca Serle
Few
Young
Books
Fact
Write
Adult
Share
House
Demographic
Editor
Am
Friends
Author
Same
Quite
Young Adult
In Fact
Us
Many
Even
Published
Publishing
Publishing House
Two
I don't have to mumble something under my breath when someone asks me what I do anymore. I can just say, definitively, 'I'm an author.' And the best part? That's not a myth. That's just the truth.
Rebecca Serle
Truth
Best
Me
Myth
Breath
Say
Best Part
Someone
Something
Part
Author
Just
Anymore
Ask
Mumble
I love anything by Deb Caletti. She's my absolute favorite young adult author. I love Ally Carter as well.
Rebecca Serle
Love
Young
Favorite
Carter
Absolute
Adult
Ally
She
Well
Author
Young Adult
Anything
I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.
Richard Curtis
Time
Problem
Made
Control
Changes
Books
Must
No Control
No Problem
Writer
Over
Understand
Editorial
Hire
Text
Selling
Author
Media
Copyright
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley
Saying
Made
First
Reading
Difficult
Ought
Given
More
Volume
Without
Permission
Than
Author
Front
Getting
May
Public
Note
Much
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Robert Benchley
Other
Those
More
Hospital
Been
Left
Than
Author
Authorities
Departing
Any
Behind
Patients
Works
Copies
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
Robert Duvall
Man
Battle
Wife
King
Out
Could
David
He
Greatest
Israel
His
Author
Die
Psalms
Sent
Sleep
Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.
Robert J. Sawyer
Writing
Living
Characters
Someone
He
He Or She
Also
She
Reader
Becomes
His
Author
Just
Lives
Her
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson Davies
Art
Every
Dimensions
Critics
Spirit
He
Boundaries
New
Longs
Himself
Frequently
However
Author
Curious
Human
Literary
Wants
Ashamed
Should
Explore
Belief
Human Spirit
Suffer
Extend
To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.
Roman Coppola
You
Difficult
Takes
Make
Lot
Author
Personal
Quite
Movies
Stamina
Thing
Difficult Thing
Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination.
Rory MacLean
Good
Travel
Destination
Vision
Own
Worlds
Our
Books
Distant
Strongest
Open
New
Like
Becomes
His
Subject
Itself
Author
Door
Works
Her
For some of my young female readers, it will be the first time they will have seen a Punjabi author be successful in the West. Because I'm dealing with topics that aren't always easily discussed, I know they will look up to me, because I would have done the same. So I just want to make sure I do right by them, wherever this takes me.
Rupi Kaur
Time
Me
Will
Seen
First
Young
Topics
Easily
Would
Some
Be The First
Takes
Know
Look
Make
Readers
Sure
Because
First Time
Female
Dealing
Always
West
Up
Author
Discussed
Same
Done
Just
Want
Wherever
Them
Successful
Right
If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.
Ruth Glick
Day
Me
You
Yourself
Writing
Matters
Energy
Secondary
Worse
All Day
Gym
Ruth
Week
Computer
Had
Name
Along
Days
Couple
Make
Real
Up
Real Name
Author
Romance
Much
Cookbook
Using
Chained
Even
Right
Career
Drag
I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
Samuel Barnett
Theatre
Nothing
Cold
Out
More
Emotionally
Disappointing
Like
Felt
Left
Than
Author
Moved
Being
Want
After
Tissue
Engaged
Used
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Sarah Fielding
Judgment
Own
Reader
His
Author
Candor
Modesty
Less
Works
Necessary
Most people will pay tribute to Anthony Bourdain as a chef, as the author of 'Kitchen Confidential,' and as the host of several food and travel shows - most recently, 'Parts Unknown' on CNN.
Sarah Weinman
Food
Travel
People
Will
Pay
Unknown
Several
Tribute
Kitchen
Host
Most
Parts
Chef
Author
Confidential
Pay Tribute
Shows
Recently
Yes, Charles Yu names his main character after himself. That main character, in fact, is both time-machine repairman and author of a book called 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.'
Sarah Weinman
Character
Science
Book
Live
Universe
Charles
Both
Fact
Main
Main Character
Names
Safely
Himself
How
His
Yes
Author
In Fact
After
Fictional
George V. Higgins's 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1970) added an extra literary layer to the con novel; James Crumley's 'The Last Good Kiss' (1978) influenced countless writers and will be remembered forever for its opening line, quoted often in obituaries of the author.
Sarah Weinman
Good
Will
Kiss
Extra
Added
Obituaries
Layer
Writers
Remembered
Con
Countless
Opening
Eddie
George
Line
Friends
Forever
Author
Often
Influenced
James
Literary
Quoted
Novel
Last
Walter Mosley was not the first black crime writer, nor was he the first to fuse genre conventions with larger social concerns. But when 'Devil in a Blue Dress' introduced the Los Angeles-based private detective Easy Rawlins nearly 20 years ago, it was clear the author set out to stretch the boundaries of the mystery and thriller framework.
Sarah Weinman
Crime
Black
First
Devil
Framework
Fuse
Out
Introduced
Easy
Detective
Dress
Thriller
Mystery
Writer
He
Clear
Boundaries
Genre
Concerns
Los
Private
Nor
Years
Years Ago
Author
Blue
Conventions
Social
Larger
Nearly
Set
Stretch
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
Sarah Zettel
Life
Change
Writing
Mother
Change Things
Changes
Life Changes
Parenthood
Becoming
Reflected
Author
Want
Biggest
Cannot
Whether
Help
Things
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
Sarah Zettel
You
People
Enjoy
Think
Dandy
Say
Characters
More
Like
Readers
Author
Same
Want
Story
Which
Many
Series
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
Sarah Zettel
Life
Myself
Challenges
Science
World
Research
Extremely
Thoroughly
Possibilities
Intrigued
More
Hostile
Environment
Venus
Science Fiction
However
Lot
Began
Author
Offers
Fiction
Wants
Create
Who
Found
Now
Presents
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
Scott Turow
Burden
Carry
Proof
Prosecutor
Supposed
Author
Really
Who
I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.
Scott Turow
Me
Crazy
You
Happy
Thought
Become
President
Coronation
Guild
Tell
Some
About
Had
Part
Know
Also
Sort
Bugs
Talking
Because
Got
iPad
Very
Replaced
Author
Laptop
Present
Basically
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down.
Shane Carruth
You
Value
Looking
Down
Nutritional
Has-Been
Hopefully
Some
Attention
Stuff
Piece
Narrative
Passing
Came
Been
Exist
Up
Author
Get
Hold
Stories
Literature
While
Storytelling
Working
Even
Film
Why
Things
My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.
Shane Carruth
Conversation
Random
Job
Interpretation
Think
Enough
Way
Some
Entice
Some Things
Clear
Puzzling
Ideas
Also
Make
Least
Opposite
Author
Just
Story
Meaningful
Assemblage
Things
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