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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. Alfred Hitchcock
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. Ali Smith
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A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book. Ali Smith
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All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels. Ali Smith
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When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language. Ali Smith
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head. Alice Hoffman
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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real? Alice Hoffman
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. Alice Hoffman
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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Alice James
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Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading. Alice McDermott
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'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do. Alice Munro
You Book Beginning Every Books Those Classic Adolescence Writer Written Sure Material Childhood After Younger Really Should Lives
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Alice Walker
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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. Alice Walker
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I start each book when it's ready and never before. Alice Walker
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I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing. Alice Waters
Book Printing Always Been Afraid Interested Used
My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer. Alicia Coppola
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But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father. Alison Bechdel
Relationship Book Father About Mostly
I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great. Alison Goldfrapp
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'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history! Alison Weir
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Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.' Alissa Quart
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Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I crossed the road, like the absent-minded animal in a Richard Scarry kid's book. Alissa Quart
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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed. Allan Gurganus
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You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television. Allison Mack
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It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film. Allison Pearson
Book Adore Writer Well Sneer Hollywood Film
My life is an open book. Allu Arjun
Life Book My Life Open Open Book
For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.' Allyn Rachel
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