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A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book. Ravi Subramanian
Needs Book Beginning Down Prevent Thriller Attention Putting Reader Very Hold Interest Them Engage
You need to be the CEO of your own book. Ravi Subramanian
You Book Own CEO Your Need
Thousands of books are published every year in India, and it's becoming more difficult to stand out and get people to buy the books. The only way to get people notice the book is to create a buzz much before it's released. Ravi Subramanian
Buy Book People Year Before Difficult Every Books Way Released Out India Thousands More Only Becoming Get Create Much Notice Stand Published Buzz
Any author gets inspired by the experiences and events that happen to him or his immediate circle. While that's where the seed or the idea germinates, by the end of the story, it accounts for hardly anything in the book. Ravi Subramanian
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After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough. I have consciously rectified that in my next four books. In any case, it's true that women run the world, and men would do better to listen to them! Ravi Subramanian
Me Women Book World Strong Better Men First Enough Back Books Tell Characters Run Would Case Had True Readers Female Female Characters Came Were Any Listen After Them Created Next Many Four
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. Ray Bradbury
Life Women Book My Life Been Sellers Teachers English
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. Ray Bradbury
Book Old Telephone Out Guts Take Almost Almost All Names Dead Friends Personal Died Now
Once you actually book the role, you see that people have faith in your ability to portray the character. Ray Fisher
Faith Character You Book People Once Ability See Role Your Actually Portray
My hair was long - in my high school year book, I looked like an ugly David Cassidy. Ray Romano
Book School Ugly Long Hair Year High High School David Like Looked
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. Ray Stannard Baker
Life Book Black Folk Insight Gives Struggles Souls His Than Aspirations Deeper Inner Inner Life
I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan. Ray Stevenson
Book Say Presume Comic Comic Book Am Fan Ever
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor. Ray Walston
Director Book Think Would Cases Guy Like Wrote Makes Difference Screen Actor Adapted
I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid. Ray Wise
Myself Heart Book First Young Kid Fact Over Read Always Edition Been Close Aficionado Being In Fact Young Kid Again Dracula
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books. Raymond E. Feist
Character Book Nothing Books Characters Runs Risk Write Writer Wrong Feel Comic Comic Book Comic Books Precious Them Turning Treats
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy. That's a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets. Raymond E. Feist
Good Me Book Money Pay Kind Threatening Good Thing Write Mortgage Tickets Offering Refuse Fantasy Keep Season Thing
I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it. Raymond E. Feist
Hope Best Myself Book People Strong Gone Other Worried Thousands About Magician Write Never Since New Like New Book Reader Because Opinions Listen Downhill Whom Ever
I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary. Rebecca Hall
Book Remember Everything Books Nerdy Classic About Through Contemporary Read Sort Always Got Go Get Anything Afterwards Them Really
I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending. Rebecca Makkai
You Class Happy Waiting Book Ending Will Difficult Too Cried Books Once One Book Though Embarrassed Tell Admit Only Part Aloud Crying Read Terribly Because Were Intellectual Very Where Which Happy Ending Gandhi Elementary Biography
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised. Rebecca Makkai
Myself Book Mother Three Had Goose Read Taught Rhymes Comparing Letters
Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and supported by your text. Rebecca Serle
Truth You Book Writing Building Setting Relevant Plot Characters Intuition Intuitive About More Remarkably Writers Writing Process Put Supported Like Talk How Lot Text Than Task Accurately Often Process Theme Your Need
Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up, that children will recognize. Words that inspire and comfort. Words that challenge yet don't patronize. Words that, well, mean something to them. Rebecca Serle
Book Words Inspire Light Challenge Will Reflect Recognize Spirit Something Pick Also Message Well Comfort Up Authors Children Patronize Mean Them Convey
Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book. Rebecca Serle
Love Book Seriously Way Kind Feel Terrible Am Novels
My first book, 'When You Were Mine,' got optioned for film and went into preproduction as 'Rosaline.' That was the classic model: Hollywood calls, options book, and that's it. You sign on the dotted line. Rebecca Serle
You Book First Mine Sign Classic Calls Got Line Were Model Options Hollywood Film
I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot! Rebecca Stead
Myself Science Book Reading Other Kids Favourite Kinds About Writers Klein Never Had Ray Ray Bradbury Like Liked Also Read Science Fiction Judy Lot Fiction James Paula Things
There's this trouble with books for me because I'm terrible at thinking of titles. The truth is, even with the titles that I've landed on in the end, they always feel wrong. I think it's because of this whole problem of having to package your book in a certain way. Rebecca Stead
Truth Me Truth Is Book Problem Trouble Think Thinking Books Way Having Wrong Feel Terrible Because Always End In The End Package Titles Landed Certain Your Certain Way Whole Even
I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid. Rebecca Stead
Book Passion First Reading Think Kid Kind Would About Inspired Write Like Sort Felt Trying Childhood Loved
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