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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Dirk Benedict
Book
Stage
Otherwise
Very
Craft
Different
Fiction
Screenplay
Stage Play
Requires
Play
The purpose of the E.U. Withdrawal Bill is in any event not to decide the terms of Brexit but to ensure that it can take place smoothly and that legal continuity, which is essential for businesses, is maintained. There is not a single MP who does not agree that getting the bill on the statute book is essential for us all.
Dominic Grieve
Legal
Book
Single
Ensure
Purpose
Take
Maintained
Terms
Withdrawal
Does
Smoothly
Continuity
Any
Getting
Essential
Decide
Place
Which
Us
Bill
Brexit
Who
Businesses
Agree
Event
I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?
Don Novello
You
Book
Down
Lying
Everybody
Finally
Only
Take
Like
Know
Edited
Least
Overview
Then
Whittle
Whole
Letters
My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult for me because I couldn't concentrate. I was failing almost every subject. To this day, I'm not too good at reading a book. But I was the president of my high school comedy group, and they treated me like a king.
Don Rickles
Good
Day
Me
Book
School
Comedy
Mother
King
Big
Reading
Group
Difficult
Every
Too
President
High
High School
Pushing
Almost
Failing
Concentrate
Like
Schoolwork
She
Because
Subject
Big Influence
Very
Influence
Inhibited
Shy
Treated
Kept
No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
Donal Logue
Natural
Book
World
Think
Books
Though
Pretty
Guy
Comic
Comic Book
Comic Books
Subculture
Transition
Fascinated
Film
The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.
Donald E. Westlake
Book
Society
Macdonald
Brooding
Introspection
Tortured
Nobody
Any
View
Fun
Ever
Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
Donald Hall
Book
Criticism
Publish
Books
Would
Poems
New
New Book
Anthology
Years
Essays
Many
Four
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Donald Miller
Hope
Book
People
Lonely
Nothing
Bit
Wrong
Provide
Want
Little
Little Bit
Them
Your
Company
I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.
Donna Leon
Me
Memory
Book
Remember
Books
No Memory
Scene
Beats
Know
Because
Happens
Them
Might
Now
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
Donna Tartt
Book
Language
Long
First
Approach
Characters
Also
Friend
Diction
Different
Different Approach
Story
Different Characters
Little
Landscape
Use
Novel
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
Donna Tartt
Good
Book
Ten
Rather
Write
Than
Good Book
Mediocre
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Saying
Me
You
Book
Will
Long
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Panel
Everything
Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
Out
Telling
John
John Kennedy
Someday
About
Faced
Johnson
Recurring
Wrong
Know
Wrote
Got
Them
Roosevelt
Whom
Twice
Why
Kennedy
Kennedys
Nightmare
It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
Doris Lessing
Me
Book
Year
Months
Takes
Eighteen
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.
Dorothy Allison
Saying
Me
Book
School
Sister
Books
Unmarried
High
High School
Someone
Horror
Given
Supposed
She
Read
Another
Became
Always
Up
Romance
Happen
Happening
While
Pregnant
Should
Novels
Growing
Growing Up
Why
Her
Kept
I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.
Dorothy Atkinson
Me
Book
People
School
Drive
Sister
Every
Gave
Mad
About
Shared
Knew
Joyce
Comic
Bedroom
George
Heard
Version
Just
Loved
Radio
Mum
Her
Routines
Every Night
Night
I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'
Dorothy Hodgkin
Nature
Book
School
First
Met
School Children
Wrote
Concerning
Crystals
Subject
Children
Pages
Things
When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.
Doug Stanton
War
Book
Writing
World
School
First
Met
Before
Action
Despite
High
Components
Rarely
High School
About
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Fact
Mentioned
Delivered
Had
Major
Island
Boy
Ship
Textbooks
Survivors
Story
While
Little
Them
Bomb
Last
World War
World War II
When I was writing my first book, 'In Harm's Way,' I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed. I was surprised that sometimes their grandchildren hadn't talked to them about the historic events of that night in July 1945, when the USS Indianapolis went down.
Doug Stanton
Book
Writing
Events
Sometimes
Veterans
Sacrifice
First
Sense
Down
Way
Possessed
Those
About
Talked
WWII
Witnessed
Surprised
Historic
July
Grandchildren
Them
Night
Harm
People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams
Me
Book
People
Worth
Digital
Thought
Own
Think
Enough
Something
Written
Sort
Another
Just
Want
Wanted
Interesting
Media
Right
Thing
It's a bit of a cliche, but I think girls like to get flowers. I think books are quite romantic, too. If you can find an interesting book, that brings something out in your partner that can be very romantic.
Douglas Booth
You
Book
Girl
Partner
Think
Too
Books
Bit
Out
Find
Something
Like
Cliche
Very
Get
Quite
Romantic
Interesting
Your
Brings
Flowers
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.
Douglas Brinkley
Together
Book
Try
Old
Heroes
Made
Own
Jim
Daniel
Sew
Favorite
Would
Charles
My Own
Johnny
Write
Bowie
Make
Years
Encyclopedia
American
Them
Then
Things
Biography
The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.
Douglas Brunt
Me
Book
First
Before
Own
Energy
Gave
Ghosts
My Own
Wrote
Read
Lot
Gold
Manhattan
Loved
Coast
Start
Last
In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.
Douglas Brunt
Government
Nature
Book
Money
First
Setting
Ghosts
Inside
About
Bear
Scheme
Trader
Wall
Wall Street
Manhattan
Predictable
Explored
Regulations
Street
Compensation
Bond
My daughter has seen the transition from struggling screenwriter to successful picture book author, and she's enjoyed it very much because she's a wonderful little kid. And she's always believed in her daddy.
Drew Daywalt
Book
Wonderful
Seen
Daughter
Picture
Kid
Struggling
Picture Book
She
Because
Always
Very
Author
Screenwriter
Little
Transition
Little Kid
Much
Successful
Daddy
Believed
Her
Enjoyed
Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.
Dua Lipa
Me
Book
Single
Every
Everything
Possible
Give
Open
Open Book
Piece
Audience
Very
Trying
Autobiographical
Much
I had a column for the 'Seattle Weekly' for five years, and there was one column that was called 'How To Be A Man,' and it was kind of tongue in cheek; it was really tongue in cheek. And I got a book deal from that column.
Duff McKagan
Man
Book
Kind
Be A Man
Weekly
Had
Column
Cheek
Deal
Got
How
Years
Five
Really
Seattle
Tongue
Tongue-In-Cheek
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