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Cabaret is a much more up close and personal experience, which I enjoy very much. This is a tremendous difference to being in a large theatre, doing a book show, where there is more separation. But both have equal importance.
Chita Rivera
Experience
Theatre
Book
Separation
Enjoy
Tremendous
More
Both
Cabaret
Importance
Equal
Doing
Up
Very
Close
Personal
Personal Experience
Difference
Being
Where
Which
Much
Show
Large
Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Me
Book
Writing
World
Else
Enter
Vocabulary
Entity
Wrote
Were
Forget
Anything
Anything Else
Inhabit
Separate
Each
Ever
I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Book
Think
Once
Solomon
About
Know
Read
Years
Text
Shocked
Quite
Anything
Which
Deserves
Slave
The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.
Chloe Sevigny
Book
People
Confuse
Birth
Birth Certificate
More
Had
Said
Child
Flair
Just
Want
Little
Chloe
Certificate
Even
I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.
Chris Abani
Book
Think
Bit
Split
Over
Indulgent
Know
Go
Anything
Interesting
Little
Little Bit
Should
Pages
Two
In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.
Chris Crutcher
Book
Discipline
Brilliant
Thought
Seniors
Every
Innovative
Books
Rural
Through
Detroit
Had
Town
Talk
Read
Whale
Michigan
Done
Decided
Far
Teach
Chosen
Thing
'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
Chris Crutcher
Truth
Me
Book
People
Tough
Pain
Air
Draw
Out
Telling
Telling The Truth
About
Talk
Also
Redemption
Parts
Handed
Whale
Stories
Compassionate
Thin
What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.
Chris Evans
Book
Phones
People
Phone
Car
Cell Phones
Favorite
Favorite Things
Stuck
Like
Read
Prior
Am
Doing
Did
Cell
Used
Rides
Things
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Chris Matthews
You
Book
Writing
Word
Reading
Book Writing
Books
Collaborating
Laugh
Embarrassment
She
Just
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Now
Publisher
Actually
Palin
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
Chris Pavone
You
Book
Writing
Beginning
Out
Make
How
Your
Figure
Compelling
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
Chris Pavone
Good
Book
Few
Whatever
About
Editors
Very
Get
Going
Should
Page
Your
Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.
Chris Pavone
Buy
Me
You
Book
People
World
Made
First
Accident
Before
Pay
Pay Attention
Way
Easier
Out
Possible
Entirely
Having
Write
Written
Attention
Without
Get
Trying
Convince
Novel
Publisher
Second
Rejected
I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.
Chris Pavone
Business
Reality
Book
People
World
Reflection
Reading
Accident
Other
Meetings
Consists
Stay
Small
Computer
Like
Know
Mostly
Accurate
Trying
Offices
Sitting
Any
Screens
Which
Awake
Staring
Nearly
Publishing
Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will be worse.
Chris Pavone
Book
Will
First
Past
Before
Every
Worse
Put
Get
Front
Being
Public
Two
I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
Chris Pine
Great
Book
Power
Great Book
Books
Wayne
Guy
Read
Self-Help
Intention
Loved
Which
Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.
Chris Raschka
Work
Me
Book
Words
Will
Picture
Important
Whatever
Thinking
About
Something
Structure
Almost
Picture Book
Most
Content
Because
Got
Fit
The Most Important
Size
Form
Much
Pages
Standard
Express
Images
If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.
Chris Raschka
Needs
Book
Dog
Girl
Picture
Before
Too
Carried
Be Careful
Wrestling
Picture Book
Named
Around
Still
Itself
Get
Maybe
Just
Little
Little Girl
Bike
Manner
Much
Riding
Away
Daisy
Careful
When I was at Marvel, they were in bankruptcy, which is hard to believe now with 'Avengers 2' out, but it was during the 1990s. It was a troubled place. Comic book sales were dropping. Work was scattered.
Chris Renaud
Work
Book
Believe
Out
Scattered
Marvel
Troubled
Dropping
Comic
Comic Book
Were
Sales
Bankruptcy
Place
Which
Avengers
Hard
Now
In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.
Chris Riddell
Future
Prayer
Book
Space
Digital
Will
Before
Illustrations
Paper
Animated
Never
Like
Era
Permitted
Diaries
Austere
Texts
Being
Now
Illustrated
I think the character of Superman may be the greatest fictional creation of modern times, and working on the book is for me a sacred trust. I'm just doing my best not to disappoint!
Chris Roberson
Best
Character
Me
Trust
Book
Superman
Creation
Think
Sacred
Disappoint
Greatest
Doing
Times
Modern
May
Just
Fictional
Modern Times
Working
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
Chris Van Allsburg
Good
Book
Events
Picture
Good Picture
Attention
Picture Book
Pictures
Call
Arresting
Happening
Story
Should
The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.
Chris Van Allsburg
Book
Imagination
Alive
See
Able
General
Only
Thrilling
Point
Had
Come
Got
Existed
Effect
Viewing
Film
Thing
Images
It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!
Chris Van Allsburg
Time
Book
Year
Back
Case
Parent
Part-Time
Since
Doing
Been
Years
Cuts
Teaching
Number
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
Chris Van Allsburg
Art
You
Book
Thought
Single
Own
Visual
Write
Idea
Does
Always
Material
Art Form
Represent
Artistic
Form
Which
Should
Your
When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is, 'Well, yes, I guess I am a child.' But I don't think of myself that way.
Chris Van Allsburg
Saying
Myself
You
Book
Somebody
Think
Guess
Way
Says
Must
Well
Answer
Am
Yes
Child
Children
Basically
When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.
Chris Ware
Book
Old
Thought
Ambition
Own
Nothing
Other
Able
My Own
Comic
Comic Book
Real
Doing
Years
Any
Wanna
Really
Conquer
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