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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
Karin Slaughter
Work
Thoughts
You
Book
Emotions
Better
Distract
Lost
Nothing
Adept
Read
Another
Off
Than
Person
Getting
Turning
Your
Letting
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
Karin Slaughter
Good
You
Experience
Book
People
World
Better
Believe
Every
Think
Other
Books
Laugh
Insight
Give
Having
New
Opens
Make
Read
Cultures
Up
New World
Story
Them
Us
Really
It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
Karin Slaughter
Best
Book
Better
Take
Deliver
Make
Sure
Goal
Than
Just
Order
Want
Story
Each
Last
Chances
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
Karin Slaughter
Me
Library
Book
Important
Whatever
Community
Libraries
About
Writer
Tours
Since
Involved
Talking
Became
Said
How
Coming
Want
Then
Help
Published
For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive how you and I drive.
Karl Iagnemma
You
Book
Better
Car
Drive
Worse
Divide
Developing
Between
How
Bridge
I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book.
Karl Ove Knausgard
You
Culture
Book
People
Narcissism
Reading
Become
Collapse
No Chance
Tells
See
About
More
Could
Know
Read
First-Hand
German
Anyone
Regularly
Why
Chance
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each month. For practical reasons, that didn't work out.
Karl Ove Knausgard
Work
Book
Books
Month
Out
Head
House
Wrote
Practical
Work Out
Reasons
Twelve
Each
Publishing
Publishing House
Suggested
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.
Karl Ove Knausgard
Book
First
Spent
New
New Book
Without
Years
Five
Getting
Six
After
Novel
Second
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
Karl Pilkington
You
Book
People
Somewhere
Met
Sleeping
Else
Out
About
Someone
Never
Knocking
Days
Comfortable
Person
Did
Unfamiliar
Different
Holiday
Holidays
Different Person
Your
Reason
Zone
'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.
Karrine Steffans
Life
You
Book
People
Matter
Some People
My Life
Else
Some
About
Life Story
Thus
Heard
Encounters
Celebrities
Confessions
May
Just
Anyone
Anyone Else
Happens
Story
Which
Video
Far
Include
People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
Kaskade
Time
Me
Book
People
Sets
Out
Thousands
Per
Guys
Records
Write
Songs
Soon
Crying
Sure
Because
Still
Go
Going
Moving
Room
Them
Really
Laptop
Play
Vinyl
Last
Pull
Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
Kat Dennings
Book
Comic
Comic Book
Huge
Oh
Movie
Fan
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
Kate Adie
Book
About
Write
Period
Wrote
Left
Very
Wanted
Specifically
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
Kate Atkinson
Book
First
Everyone
Embark
Characters
Entire
About
Case
Part
Cruise
Supposed
Antarctica
Were
Histories
Going
Preparing
Started
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Kate DiCamillo
Saying
Me
You
Book
Will
Down
Kid
Thrill
Write
Another
Get
Hands
Loved
Biggest
Biggest Thrill
Your
Letter
You have to learn how to write each book.
Kate DiCamillo
You
Book
Write
Learn
How
Each
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.
Kate DiCamillo
Book
People
Reading
Think
One Book
About
Leads
Make
Another
Judgments
Going
Just
Want
Them
It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.
Kate DiCamillo
Book
Strips
Something
Emotional
Emotional Thing
Powerful
Read
Reduce
Test
Questions
Very
Series
Away
Thing
It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.
Kate DiCamillo
Together
Book
Same Thing
Every
Everybody
Tell
Until
Trying
Same
Sixth
Where
Story
Which
Room
Realized
Fifth
Thing
Bring
For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
Kate Grenville
Knowledge
You
Book
Writing
Thought
Rule
About
Only
Write
Tourist
Like
Countryside
Know
Most
Got
Years
Australian
Australians
Wanted
Thin
Basic
Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.
Kate Klise
Best
Book
Writing
Law
College
Pay
Our
Libraries
Adjunct
Shabby
College Level
Adult
Supplement
Share
Invited
Schools
Well
Deal
Authors
Tips
Children
Fare
Sweeter
Fortune
Teaching
Full-Time
Companies
Many
Strategies
Income
Professors
Level
I'm not a big crossover person, I'll be honest. I try to keep 'Hellcat' separate from the larger Marvel world because I want it to be a book anyone can read, not just a hardcore comics fan.
Kate Leth
Book
World
Try
Big
Crossover
Marvel
Read
Because
Comics
Person
Just
Want
Anyone
Fan
Separate
Keep
Hardcore
Larger
Honest
There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
Kate Middleton
Best
Family
You
Book
Care
Rule
Rule Book
Wrong
Make
Up
Very
Just
Your
Right
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
Kate Morton
You
Book
Mysteries
Feeling
Closed
Market
Out
Inside
Adult
Delving
Opening
Until
Coming
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
Kate Morton
Hope
Book
Pretty
Given
Wrote
Read
Up
Just
Being
Wanted
Much
Published
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
Kate Thompson
Book
Beginning
Books
One Book
Those
More
Only
Written
Knew
Missing
Link
Than
Going
Set
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