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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
Carolyn See
Beautiful
Book
World
Most Beautiful
Jazz
Incredible
Sax
Marsh
Some
About
Pianist
Open
Tenor
Look
Most
Alto
Sounds
Lee
Whenever
Turn
Who
Captured
Luminous
Player
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.
Carrie Coon
Book
Husband
Reading
Books
Online
He
New
Always
Review
Huge
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Ordering
Then
Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.
Carrie Vaughn
Love
Book
World
Teen
Teen Years
Books
Defining
More
Like
Robin
Years
Blue
Sword
If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then it would matter to know how I felt about what I was playing. You can't fake it in that situation. But I'm just counting them down as they appear on the chart, 1 through 40. What really matters is what I say between the songs.
Casey Kasem
Music
Time
You
Book
Phone
Matter
Matters
Situation
Down
Say
Would
About
Chart
Through
Songs
Counting
Between
Know
Felt
Rock
Fake
How
Real
Doing
Were
Just
Them
Then
Really
Show
Appear
Slapping
Playing
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
Cassandra Clare
You
Yourself
Book
Inspire
Heroes
Will
Shoes
Heroines
Boring
Pretty
Only
Perfect
Put
Like
Protagonist
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.
Cassandra Clare
Me
Book
Books
Mindset
Those
Characters
Get
Different
Helps
Specific
Need
I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.
Cassandra Clare
Book
Fire
Think
Definitely
Characters
Significant
City
About
Make
Limits
Tested
Heavenly
Wanna
Where
Really
Choices
Who
No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.
Cassandra Clare
Love
You
Book
People
Matter
Challenge
Sit
Down
Books
Write
Shape
Written
Feel
New
New Book
Always
How
Same
Going
Whenever
Story
To Love
Many
I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.
Catherine Crier
Book
Writing
Will
Say
Rumors
See
About
Know
Heard
Very
Anything
Interesting
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don't read it for legal reasons, but I'm thrilled to know it's there. Someone cared. Someone loved it enough to spend their free time writing about it for free.
Catherynne M. Valente
Time
Legal
Book
Writing
Free
Enough
Spend
Mine
About
Someone
Thrilled
Delighted
Inspired
Free Time
Know
Piece
Read
Always
Been
Loved
Reasons
Floating
Cared
'Use Me' is a wonderfully satisfying book.
Cathleen Schine
Me
Book
Wonderfully
Use
Satisfying
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
Cecelia Ahern
Book
Events
Gifts
Find
Open
Sharing
Come
Readers
Printed
Always
Go
Covers
Very
Germany
Families
Personal
Whenever
Stories
Them
If you're looking for a book that's not been influenced by 21st century popular culture and that's guaranteed to be a good read because it's stood the test of time, you can't go wrong with the classics.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Time
Good
You
Culture
Book
Looking
Classics
Wrong
Read
Because
Test
Go
Been
Stood
Influenced
Century
Popular
Popular Culture
Guaranteed
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Me
Book
Gossip
Internet
Thought
Other
Teenagers
Back
Books
About
Classmates
Fact
Develop
Days
Concept
Anonymous
Gossips
Editor
Passed
Caught
Were
Children
Might
Who
Using
Series
Each
Her
My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This was completely unnecessary, as I always got A's, and they bought me books all the time anyway, and we all knew it.
Celeste Ng
Buy
Time
Me
Book
Parents
Books
One Book
Unnecessary
Would
Knew
Bought
Always
Got
Report
Anyway
Straight
Used
Bribe
Card
I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.
Celeste Ng
Best
Book
People
Doing The Right Thing
Will
Think
Right Thing
Those
Best Intentions
About
Write
Knocking
Come
Ideals
Doing
Truly
Lot
Times
Intentions
Wanted
The Right Thing
Realize
Then
Really
Who
Suddenly
Right
Thing
One of the most fun things for me, as a writer, is when readers ask questions like, 'Oh, I noticed that you have a lot of water and baptism imagery in your book. Did you do that on purpose?'
Celeste Ng
Me
You
Book
Water
Purpose
Writer
Like
Most
Readers
Lot
Questions
Did
Oh
Baptism
Ask
Noticed
Your
Fun
Fun Things
Things
Imagery
I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have what it takes to write such a book.
Celeste Ng
Myself
Book
Think
Honestly
Thriller
Mystery
Write
Writer
Writers
Takes
Am
Awe
It's incredibly rewarding to have people come up to me at readings and say, 'I'm not Chinese, but this is the relationship I have with my mother.' Or say, 'Your book made me think a lot about my parents, and I've decided to sign up for counseling.' That is mind-boggling.
Celeste Ng
Me
Relationship
Book
People
Mother
Made
Parents
Think
Incredibly
Mind-Boggling
Say
Sign
About
Counseling
Come
Readings
Lot
Up
Rewarding
Decided
Chinese
Your
With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.
Celeste Ng
Book
First
Would
Would-Be
Only
Writer
Concerned
Pigeon-Holed
Labeled
Asian-American
Novel
I wrote 'Little Fires Everywhere' and sold the book in 2015, still the Obama years. The possibility of a Trump presidency was not on my radar.
Celeste Ng
Book
Presidency
Sold
Everywhere
Possibility
Obama
Fires
Wrote
Still
Years
Trump
Little
Radar
For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing 'Goodnight Moon' before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition - but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual.
Celeste Ng
Life
Good
Son
Book
Moon
Three
First
Reading
Before
Disposition
Sleeper
Babies
Seemed
Insisted
Ritual
He
Part
Goodnight
Like
Most
Became
Bedtime
His
Years
Hearing
Help
Whole
Specifically
I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!
Celeste Ng
Book
Reading
One Book
Bad
Bad Habit
More
Habit
Simultaneously
Than
It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.
Celina Jade
Character
Me
Book
Dream
Always
Comic
Comic Book
Been
Play
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.
Celine Buckens
Love
War
Me
History
Book
World
Sections
About
Knew
Devoured
Lot
Very
Stories
After
Interest
Really
World History
Actually
Two
World War
World War I
World War II
I was a big fan of Kurt Angle when I was growing up. Actually, his book is a big part of the reason that I work out so hard.
Cesaro
Work
Book
Big
Out
Angle
Part
Big Fan
His
Kurt
Up
Big Part
Fan
Work Out
Hard
Reason
Growing
Growing Up
Actually
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