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Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.
Glen Duncan
Life
Book
Easier
Would
Would-Be
Over
Wrote
Doing
Same
Just
Not Interested
Again
Interested
Much
I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.
Glenn Close
Book
Wife
Thought
Before
Think
Dated
Never
Knew
Term
Read
Very
Movie
Meant
Watched
Started
Filming
In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Glenn Ligon
Work
Art
Yourself
Book
World
Interviews
Writings
Retrospective
American
Whitney
Conjunction
Published
Museum
I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.
Glennon Doyle Melton
Time
Me
Broken
Book
Hate
Writing
Words
First
Every
Every Time
Books
Mad
Only
Wrote
Makes
Precarious
Just
Sand
Now
Why
Right
Jesus
I have represented people in book deals.
Gloria Allred
Book
People
Deals
I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.
Gloria Stuart
Book
Finished
Week
Ready
Just
Next
Start
Last
I got Elliott Smith's photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book's logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo.
Go Ah-sung
Photography
Book
Gift
Glasses
Mind
Before
Thinking
Those
Having
Smith
Got
Came
Were
Tattoo
Publisher
The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'
Goran Ivanisevic
Best
Book
Year
Read
Code
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.
Gordon Bell
Memory
Cell Phone
Book
People
Phone
Address
No Memory
Because
Cell
Now
Numbers
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
Gordon Brown
Strength
Courage
Book
People
Made
Once
Willpower
Wrote
Courageous
Matched
Belief
Found
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
Gordon Gee
Life
Book
My Life
First
Mountains
Spent
Shadows
Town
Cliffs
Years
Utah
I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing offered me the chance to be far more creative.
Graeme Base
Work
Me
Creative
Book
Books
More
Advertising
Industry
Sort
Because
Doing
Began
Offered
Children
Disillusionment
Far
Growing
Illustrating
Publishing
Chance
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.
Graham Swift
Book
Pride
Matter
Year
Every
Complete
Way
Say
Must
Some
Slowness
Rate
Demand
Personal
Craft
Form
Themselves
Production
Who
Novelists
Whom
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.
Grant Morrison
Character
Book
Changed
Unlike
Recognition
Characters
Merchandising
Longer
Beyond
Comic
Comic Book
Eternity
Aspect
Novel
Last
To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up.
Graydon Carter
Dreams
You
Book
First
Carefully
Release
Rightly
Jobs
Must
Promoters
London
Martin
Cottage
Steve
Steve Jobs
Industry
His
Up
Itself
Discuss
Orchestrated
Literary
Anything
Which
Product
Apple
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.
Greg Behrendt
Myself
Book
Tried
More
Dating
Never
Comedian
Wrote
Pass
Off
Than
Anything
Who
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
Greg Egan
Book
Sometimes
First
Local
Boom
Easier
More
Writers
New
Likely
Undergone
Makes
Edition
Sell
Australian
Which
Then
Us
Publisher
Publishing
Recently
A new book by 'New York Times' reporter Charlie Savage, 'Power Wars,' suggests that there has been little substantive difference between George W. Bush's administration and Obama's when it comes to national-security policies or the legal justifications used to pursue regime change in the Greater Middle East.
Greg Grandin
Savage
Change
Legal
Book
Power
East
Has-Been
Obama
Administration
Charlie
Pursue
Between
New
New Book
Policies
Greater
George
Been
George W
Times
Reporter
York
New York
Difference
Middle
Substantive
New York Times
Middle East
Regime
Little
Bush
Used
Wars
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South.
Greg Iles
War
Me
Book
Black
Men
Confederate
Ancestors
Civil
Civil War
More
Facto
Could
Trucks
Miss
Performed
Dug
South
Confederacy
Than
Decade
Survived
Any
Graduated
Taught
Anyone
Expert
Pageant
Who
Fought
Ever
Ole
Raised
Loaded
'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from scratch.
Greg Sestero
Book
Ways
About
Something
Disaster
Artist
Scratch
Rewarding
Creating
Many
Peak
Career
I learned with 'The Disaster Artist,' when I was writing the book, the audience will follow you if you really try to do something different. The biggest thing is, you want to be genuine and try to surprise your audience with kind of a new direction.
Greg Sestero
You
Book
Writing
Try
Will
Kind
Follow
Something
Direction
New
Disaster
Learned
New Direction
Genuine
Audience
Surprise
Artist
Different
Want
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Really
Your
Thing
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
Gregg Easterbrook
Book
Gift
Face
Before
Nice
Guards
Football
Pictures
Were
Very
Done
Little
Company
Illustrated
Actually
As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.
Gregory Benford
God
You
Book
School
Made
Somebody
Own
Our
Once
Saw
Say
Would
Some
Someone
Write
Genetic
Know
Learn
Read
How
Text
Grade
Grade School
Traits
Authors
Tinker
Going
Rewrite
Want
Code
Play
When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end.
Gregory Maguire
Life
Book
Thought
Gone
Wicked
Say
Says
Follow
Follow-Up
No Intention
Entirely
Witch
Dead
She
Because
West
Began
End
Up
Times
Intention
Really
Should
English
Ever
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
Gregory Maguire
Me
Book
Mosquito
Unless
Relieve
Something
Bother
Write
Never
Like
Until
Itch
Help
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
Gregory Maguire
Book
Out
Write
Very
Page
Sequence
Ever
Hardly
Last
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