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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
Dakota Blue Richards
Me
Book
Slow
Though
Take
Reader
Get
Quite
Quite A While
While
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
Dale Archer
You
Book
Reading
Over
Repeated
Hearing
Get
Stories
Cannot
Story
Even
Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
Damon Galgut
Good
You
Book
Writing
Old
Sit
Difficult
Incredibly
Find
Rather
Point
Dripping
Write
Almost
Almost Anything
Obsession
Reach
Household
Because
Tap
Very
Than
Fix
Wall
Tasks
Order
Anything
Paint
Starting
I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
Damon Galgut
Book
India
About
Write
Passage
Been
Goes
Behind
Wanting
Story
Interesting
Creating
Novel
If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
Dan Brown
God
Me
Book
Writing
Will
Somebody
Reading
Say
Says
Beating
Had
Simultaneously
Well
Read
Learned
Because
His
Review
Reviewer
Up
Taste
Goes
Oh
Just
Oh My God
So Much Fun
Where
As Far As
Far
Much
Fun
Her
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
Dan Brown
Time
Memory
Book
Television
Wrinkle
Read
Up
Did
Being
While
Growing
Growing Up
Utterly
Earliest
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
Dan DeCarlo
Book
Big
Illustrations
Other
Brought
Had
Couple
Because
Boy
Comic
Comic Book
Norman
Norman Rockwell
Any
Influenced
Samples
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.
Dan Gilroy
Photography
Book
Police
Car
Crime
Drive
First
Photographer
He
Put
New
Around
First-Person
Years
Years Ago
Person
York
New York
Found
Number
Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
Dan Hawkins
Book
Computer
Terrible
Equals
Video
Graphics
Loads
In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
Dan Hill
Music
Book
World
Changing
Strictly
Music World
Out
Finding
Concerts
Been
According
Unfold
Plan
Keep
Things
Second
It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle
Good
History
Book
About
Historical
Very
For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
Dana Brunetti
You
Book
Job
Easiest
Favorites
Hour
Tie
How
Up
Any
Movie
Fan
Pivotal
Either
Moments
Two
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
Dana Spiotta
Me
Book
People
Looking
Think
Hunger
About
Concentration
Offer
Sustained
Engagement
Organized
Novel
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
Dani Shapiro
Time
You
Book
Every
Every Time
Write
Over
Learn
How
Again
Each
Start
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
Daniel Clowes
Book
Online
Rather
Only
Had
Readers
Than
Them
Even
Million
When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Daniel Goleman
Best
Business
Book
People
Intelligence
Strong
Those
Case
Write
Emotional
Emotional Intelligence
Performers
Make
Were
Wanted
Next
Working
Skills
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
Daniel Goleman
Book
Emotions
Better
Overcome
Group
Our
Destructive
About
Between
How
Dialogue
Scientists
Handle
Lama
Them
Dalai
Dalai Lama
With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
Daniel H. Pink
Day
Book
Writing
Progress
Better
Slow
Free
Feelings
Nation
Think
Despair
Incremental
Bit
Out
Kind
Remains
Write
Along
Sort
How
Self-Loathing
Laborious
Tiny
Different
Process
Little
Little Bit
Agent
Figured
Figuring
Each
Each Day
Now
One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
Daniel H. Pink
You
Book
Writing
First
Sense
Enough
Books
One Of The Things
Write
Writing Process
Am
Behind
Where
Process
Unfortunately
Now
Things
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.
Daniel H. Wilson
Science
Book
Writing
Thought
Later
Kid
Write
Never
Science Fiction
Without
Got
Scientist
Being
Fiction
Wanted
Really
Novels
I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.
Daniel Handler
Time
Angry
Family
Sports
Book
People
Wonderful
Summer
Summer Camp
Books
Through
Had
Head
Like
Liked
Witch
Dogs
Camp
Off
Won
Bunch
Child
Wonderful Time
Where
Door
Burst
Pack
Might
Cut
Really
Games
Team
Played
'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
Daniel Handler
Book
Long
Enormous
One Book
Inspiration
Wrong
Goodbye
Over
Like
Read
Questions
Again
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
Daniel Hannan
You
Entertainment
Book
Virtually
Nutshell
Rules
System
Anecdotes
About
Fact
Pursuit
Facts
Open
Particular
Crack
Any
Which
Us
Page
EU
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Book
Sold
Best-Seller
Somehow
Well
Because
Selling
Which
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
Daniel Johnston
Time
Book
Thought
Long
Long Time
Thinking
Took
Kid
Musician
Could
Always
Comic
Comic Book
Artist
Start
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
Daniel Kahneman
You
Book
Think
Case
Written
Read
Then
Differently
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