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When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
David Walliams
Myself
Me
Book
Losing
Every
Dramatic
Everything
Books
Favourite
Charlie
About
Absolute
Could
Factory
Adult
Re-Read
Devoured
Surprised
Child
Get
Hands
Hands-On
Stories
Loved
Chocolate
Electrified
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
David Walliams
Love
You
Book
Intimacy
Bit
Characters
Telling
Minutes
Write
Emotional
Writer
Between
Over
Reader
Stories
Sketches
Depth
Two
In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?
Dawn Steel
Education
Family
You
Book
School
Parents
Past
Digest
Our
High
High School
Something
Only
House
Reader
Educated
Were
Condensed
Endured
Imagine
I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.
Dax Shepard
Book
Angeles
Auditions
Los
Los Angeles
Commercial
Any
Moved
Them
People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.
Dean Bakopoulos
Day
Home
You
Book
People
Sometimes
Complete
Jobs
Responsibilities
Couch
Through
Feels
Read
Juggling
Off
Get
Front
Just
Want
Used
Multiple
Things
Rainy
Rainy Day
'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.
Dean Devlin
Love
Love Is
Book
Kind
Brooks
Mainstream
Majors
James
Movie
Ignoring
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Dean Koontz
Life
Book
Evil
Real Life
Own
Every
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Out
Some
Pretty
My Own
Pursued
Never
Real
Clone
Much
Twin
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Dean Koontz
Me
Book
Wonderful
Books
Way
Kid
Out
Only
Could
Open
Disappear
House
Because
Were
Escape
I've come to see that these politicians that release books - no way are they actually writing those books. Not when they are working fulltime, too. There's no way. That's their name on the book, but it's not their work. I'm sure of that. There's no way.
Dean Wareham
Work
Book
Writing
Politicians
Too
Books
Way
Release
Those
See
Name
Come
Sure
Working
Actually
You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.
Deb Caletti
You
Book
Will
Never
Idea
Know
How
Appear
I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.
Deb Caletti
Good
Great
News
Book
Phone
Back
Books
Later
Finally
One Book
Signed
Would
Ring
Come
Wrote
Call
Sure
Got
Waited
Any
Agent
Moment
Sat
Four
We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!
Debbie Macomber
Entertainment
Yourself
Book
Comforting
Face
Own
Difficulties
Our
Immerse
Inspiration
How
Escape
Any
Romance
Even
I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee's interest in magic. Of course, it wasn't really lost. It was there, in the catalog.
Deborah Harkness
Library
Book
Queen
Key
Thought
Lost
Everybody
Once
John
Magic
Catalog
Had
Missing
Course
Court
Oxford
Interest
Really
Manuscript
Found
Belonged
Elizabeth
I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.
Deborah Tannen
Book
Girl
Three
First
Style
Dissertation
Study
New
Am
Linguistics
York
New York
Conversational
Youngest
Jewish
Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.
Debra Granik
Book
Made
Every
Films
Host
Get
Short
Reasons
Whole
Filmmaker
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.
Debra Messing
Time
Book
Dog
Husband
Reading
Spending
Spending Time
TV
Absolutely
Obsessed
Court
Am
Friends
Stop
Watching
You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.
Dee Brown
You
Book
Back
Everything
Would
Seemed
Give
Feel
Like
Printed
Came
Been
Up
Times
Done
Getting
Just
Against
Turning
Whole
Thing
I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.
Deidre Hall
Book
She
Does
How
Camera
Years
There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.
Delia Smith
Myself
Home
Cooking
Book
Writing
Three
First
Recipes
Throughout
Vegetarian
Although
Came
Been
Years
Greatly
Being
Them
Creating
Reasons
Why
Enjoyed
Serving
My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
Denis Dutton
Life
Business
Book
Editing
My Life
Parents
Books
Bookstores
Run
Angeles
Brothers
Journals
Still
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Been
Interested
What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.
Denis Johnson
Funny
You
Son
Book
People
Down
Say
Tell
Would
About
Write
Never
Wrote
Just
Stories
Should
Even
Things
Jesus
The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in Canada, so once a year I do a promotional tour, visiting a different city every two days, doing book readings and signings.
Denise Mina
Book
Made
Big
Year
Every
Once
Once A Year
Visiting
City
Both
Tour
Days
Well
Readings
Doing
Sell
Canada
Different
Really
Novels
Fourth
Two
But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.
Dennis Muren
Great
You
Together
Book
Thought
Typical
Ang
Ang Lee
Combination
Comic
Comic Book
Hire
Lee
Getting
Just
Children
Movie
Interesting
Whoever
I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the Avengers, I would go with Thor. I would have to. I just think I look the part too much, and I'm a fan of all of them, but Thor would be something that I think I could put on. I think I could make it happen.
Derek Theler
Love
Book
Too Much
Think
Too
Thor
Would
Would-Be
Superhero
Something
Could
Had
Part
Put
Look
Make
Make It Happen
Comic
Comic Book
Go
Huge
Just
Fan
Happen
Movies
Them
Avengers
Much
My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.
Derek Walcott
Book
Mother
First
Cost
Poems
Dollars
Privately
Published
I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'My Friend Dahmer' is the one book I'll be most known for, and in a way, that's a drag, as it's nothing like the rest of the work I've done or will do moving forward. But the way I figure, it's better to have a best-known work than not to have one at all.
Derf
Work
Good
Moving Forward
Book
Better
Will
Rest
Nothing
Think
Humorist
Way
One Book
Pretty
Pretty Good
My Friend
Along
Like
Most
Known
Friend
Than
Done
Essentially
Moving
Figure
Forward
Drag
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