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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
Anne Tyler
Time
Me
Book
Writing
Space
Psychic
Will
Trouble
Every
Every Step
Others
Way
Easier
Tell
Finding
Some
Seem
Give
Give Me
Write
Never
Step
Balk
Children
Which
Themselves
Certainly
Mechanics
Grown
Now
I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
Annette Bening
Great
You
Game
Memories
Change
Book
Back
Everything
Obama
John
John Edwards
Unbelievable
Brought
Relive
Read
Clinton
Campaign
Want
McCain
Interesting
Choosing
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Her
Palin
You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.
Annette Curtis Klause
Time
You
Yourself
Book
Writing
Busy
Too
Worry
About
Next
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
Annie Dillard
Love
Book
Writing
Pilot
Worst
Daring
Spinning
Wrestling
Alligator
Stem
Feels
Like
Stunt
Blind
Blinded
Rolls
Sensation
Sentence
Turning
Rearing
Barrel
Search
Route
Level
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard
Book
First
Every
Intrinsic
Writer
Excitement
Soon
His
Impossibility
Discovers
Which
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
Annie Dillard
You
Book
Long
Pour
Big
Sense
Project
Possess
More
Write
Learn
Makes
Narrative
Nonfiction
Fit
Ambitious
Than
Essays
Stories
Many
Novel
The text, 'Is God a White Racist', By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed.
Anthea Butler
God
Learning
Construction
Book
Black
White
Side
Liberation
William
Higher
Studied
Institute
Academics
Still
Oppressed
Question
Text
Chief
Taught
Theologians
Theology
Dr
One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.
Anthony Browne
Positive
God
Day
Me
Book
Old
Thought
First
Suitcase
Fathers
Back
One Day
Superhero
About
Could
He
Wrote
Five
After
Anything
Who
Dad
Found
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
Anthony Browne
Book
Picture
Saw
Never
Picture Book
Devoured
Boy
Comics
Describe
Now
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess
Book
Reading
Possession
Becomes
Substitute
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.
Anthony Doerr
You
Book
Every
Enough
Books
One Book
Only
Week
Adulthood
Read
Still
Years
Get
Going
Literate
Lucky
When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.
Anthony Doerr
Life
You
Book
People
Rest
Live
Every
Enough
Books
Say
One Book
Recommendations
Some
More
Only
Week
Read
Math
Years
Get
Going
Ask
Your
Lucky
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
Anthony Doerr
You
Yourself
Book
Otherwise
Say
Out
Point
Write
Reach
Course
Got
How
End
Going
Where
Then
Figure
Many
Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.
Anthony Doerr
Book
Long
Publish
Too
Magazines
Write
Pieces
Print
Without
Always
Short
Bravest
Fiction
Stories
Short Stories
Meaning
Really
Publishers
I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I can see where I'm going and where I've been. When I'm reading a printed book, the weight of the pages I've turned gives me a sense of how far I've come.
Anthony Doerr
Me
Book
Reading
Subscribe
Sense
See
Similar
Gives
Weight
Come
Most
Comfortable
Printed
How
How Far
Been
Trail
Walking
Going
Where
Far
Turned
Pages
Theory
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
Anthony Holden
Man
Book
Gave
Interview
Trial
Press
Tabloid
Weeks
Put
Columns
Tower
Couple
Insults
His
Lots
End
Close
Being
Fiction
Quotes
Which
Should
Suffered
Associate
While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
Anthony Holden
Book
Sunday
Charles
Attacked
Through
Observer
Times
Being
While
My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
Anthony Horowitz
Time
Book
Writing
Long
Long Time
Before
Sit
Down
Thinking
Favourite
Part
Ideas
Up
Actually
Start
Desk
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
Anthony Horowitz
Me
Book
People
Writing
Words
Fear
Would
Would-Be
About
Someone
Finish
Write
Over
Know
Annoying
House
Messages
How
Leave
End
Get
Middle
Ends
Dying
Story
Then
What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.
Anthony Kiedis
You
Book
Only
Longer
Makes
Your
I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.
Anthony Marra
Book
Assumed
Elsewhere
Way
Had
Head
Chechnya
Bags
After
Pack
Second
Margins
Creeping
The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.
Anthony Newley
Myself
Book
About
Habit
Never
Saddest
Saddest Thing
Read
Got
Thing
I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
Anthony Storr
Best
Book
Writing
Way
Intrigued
Solve
Best Way
Puzzle
Get
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
Antoni Gaudi
Great
Nature
Book
Great Book
Human
Human Beings
Anything
Created
Beings
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Antonia Fraser
Photography
Book
Too
Glamorous
Look
Friendly
Jacket
Clue
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
Antonio Munoz Molina
Book
Better
Writer
Fair
Than
Prize
International
Awarded
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