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'New Mutants' is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it... That's why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, 'I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.'
Rob Liefeld
Broken
Book
Down
Imagination
Took
Definition
Remade
Absolute
New
Like
Because
Around
Comic
Comic Book
Confident
Just
Turned
Products
Cocky
Why
I'll be on the street and go up to people - 'Have you read a comic book before? Well, here's one.' You've got your pro-life people, your pro-choice people, your feminists. I'm a comicbooks activist.
Rob Liefeld
You
Book
People
Before
Well
Read
Comic
Got
Comic Book
Feminists
Go
Up
Pro-Choice
Pro-Life
Your
Activist
Street
Here
I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.
Rob Machado
Book
Writing
Having
Never
Contemplated
Even
Actually
I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.
Rob Van Dam
Book
Big
Geek
Part
Comic
Comic Book
Up
Big Part
Childhood
Being
Grew
Really
To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.
Robert Baden-Powell
Religion
Man
Book
Practice
Tries
Disappointing
Soon
Underlying
Him
Reads
Becomes
Boy
Scouting
Lack
Apparent
Who
Basic
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
Robert Caro
You
Book
Sometimes
Say
Gee
Something
More
Feel
Years
Timeless
Sells
Than
Did
Endures
Then
Your
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
Robert Crais
Book
Strive
Something
Something New
Write
Over
New
Same
Want
Again
Really
Each
Bring
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
Robert Creeley
You
Book
First
Heroine
Some
Returns
Island
Contingent
Wonder
Begin
Form
Stories
Place
Which
Pattern
Separate
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
Robert E. Howard
Book
Writing
Advice
Year
Aid
Neither
Write
Writers
Never
Had
Studied
Until
Read
Courses
Advising
How
Nor
Anybody
Expert
William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.
Robert Fisk
War
Me
Book
William
Silly
His
Appalled
Desire
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.
Robert Gottlieb
Love
Book
Worldwide
Generally
Studio
Make
Maker
Falling
Falling In Love
Falls
Commercial
Fiction
Movie
Literary
Literary Fiction
Producer
Appeal
Film
It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.
Robert Gottlieb
Book
Ending
Beginning
Books
Says
Out
Case
Writer
Over
Know
Most
End
Very
Getting
Often
Again
Strained
Moments
Awkward
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Soul
Book
World
Free
Every
Investigate
Freely
Until
Dogma
Permitted
Itself
Cannot
Creed
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.
Robert K. Massie
Book
Writing
Finish
Having
Having Children
Because
Children
Want
Keep
Things
I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.
Robert Kirkman
Book
Will
Three
Before
Say
Put
Almost
Nobody
Safe
Him
Print
Go
End
Times
Die
In Print
Rick
I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely.
Robert Klein
Book
Writing
Improvise
Avenue
Down
Too
Everything
Writer
Never
Like
Wrote
Does
Questioning
Closely
Initially
Amorous
For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.
Robert Kurson
Book
Think
World-Class
Positively
Hunters
Would
Would-Be
John
Follow
Divers
Only
New
New Book
Identified
Ship
Pirate
Pirates
While
Themselves
Scuba
Act
Teach
Who
Searching
Found
Ever
Second
Two
They have increased readership, which is good, but I personally am not very turned on by e-books. The physical book has always meant something to me. I'm like the horse who goes back to the stall. I'm not that adventurous.
Robert Loomis
Good
Me
Book
Increased
Back
Physical
Something
Horse
Adventurous
Like
Readership
Always
Am
Very
Goes
Which
Personally
Stall
Turned
Meant
Who
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'
Robert M. Pirsig
Book
People
First
Say
Would
Potential
Could
Had
Until
Up
After
Screw
Screwed
Screwed-Up
Published
It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.
Robert McCloskey
Book
First
Think
More
Exciting
Get
Published
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
Robert Musil
Good
Book
Rare
Other
Bad
Cases
Determine
Only
Both
Most
Unusual
Just
Whether
Useful
If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.
Robert Osborne
Morning
Book
Out
Schedule
Bed
Get
Little
I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.
Robert Pattinson
Myself
Me
Book
Made
Picture
Single
Every
Embodiment
Seems
Guy
Perfect
Uncomfortable
Part
Liked
Read
Trying
Really
Who
Here
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.
Robert Pinsky
Work
Book
Calm
Guide
Airplane
Airport
Compose
Entirely
Poetry
Driving
Head
True
Almost
Like
Wrote
Sounds
Quiet
Departure
Often
Orderly
Place
While
Little
Brief
What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.
Robert Redford
Life
Book
My Life
Side
Draw
Would
About
Something
Write
Happened
Story
Little
Sketch
Younger
Then
The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.
Robert Scheer
Book
Welfare
Highlight
Welfare Reform
Issue
Reform
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