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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
Laura Hillenbrand
Time
Suffering
Book
Thinking
Alive
Physical
About
More
Only
Only Time
Never
Individuals
Dealing
Been
Years
Worked
Working
Lived
Four
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
Laura Hillenbrand
Me
Book
People
Job
Seemed
Having
Marvelous
Head
Deals
Motivator
Lot
Off
Get
Done
Depending
Movie
Flip
Suddenly
Switch
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
Laura Hillenbrand
Me
Book
Old
Those
Stayed
Had
Bought
Fair
Come
House
Always
Quarter
Years
Sale
Loved
Across
Used
Street
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney
Me
Book
Writing
School
Out
Con
Instead
Always
Trying
Reports
Them
Act
Teachers
Letting
Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things - a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on.
Laura Lippman
Change
Garden
Book
Try
Stumble
Changes
Books
Danger
Kids
Magic
About
Magical
Divine
Wrote
Well
Edward
Forgotten
Being
Children
Moves
Stories
Lake
Ordinary
Them
Who
Series
Eager
Things
Coin
In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
Laura Moser
Health
Parenting
Book
Events
Young
Other
About
Lifestyle
Writer
Adult
Journalism
Wrote
Reviews
Current
Current Events
Young Adult
Preferred
Avoid
Novels
Career
If I'm really rolling with a short story, I work on it everywhere and end up with a finished draft in a couple months, but a novel really demands that I step out of my life and vanish into the world of the book.
Laura van den Berg
Life
Work
Book
World
My Life
Finished
Months
Everywhere
Out
Vanish
Step
Demands
Couple
End
Up
Rolling
Short
Short Story
Story
Really
Novel
Draft
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
Laurell K. Hamilton
Character
Book
Sex
Character Development
Plot
Development
Then
Should
Why
Away
Necessary
Shy
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Book
Beginning
Hundreds
Per
Write
Never
Make
Print
Am
Linear
End
Very
Pages
Thinker
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
Laurell K. Hamilton
You
Book
Words
Will
Stumble
Down
Think
Hundreds
Paper
Out
Unattainable
Perfect
Head
Perfection
Like
Looks
Came
Goal
End
Get
Going
May
Just
Pages
Your
I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
Lauren Conrad
Love
Book
People
Opportunity
Matter
Tours
Most
Because
Brand
Going
Connect
My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
Lauren Conrad
Website
Me
Creative
Book
People
Feedback
Club
Book Club
About
Outlet
Inspired
Write
New
Ideas
Most
Ventures
Provides
Get
Where
Interest
Mean
Straight
Create
Who
Creative Outlet
Platform
Things
Present
I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.
Lauren Hutton
Book
Phone
First
Booth
Photographers
Constantly
Dizzy
Look
Calling
Get
Appointment
I live for watching TV and partying with my book club.
Lauren Lapkus
Book
Club
Live
Book Club
TV
Partying
Watching
Watching Tv
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
Lauren Oliver
Book
Made
Before
Knew
Became
How
Author
Gets
Worked
Publishing
I love to say that what's great about 'Legion' is that if you haven't read a comic book and you haven't seen an 'X-Men' movie, you can come in and understand it - and this can be your comic.
Lauren Shuler Donner
Love
Great
You
Book
Seen
Say
About
Come
Read
Understand
Comic
Comic Book
Legion
Movie
Your
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.
Lauren Weisberger
Life
Work
Great
Family
Book
Revenge
Great Deal
Motherhood
Own
Way
Finds
Wears
My Own
Inspires
Write
Tends
Writer
She
Knows
Deal
Am
Friends
Whether
Much
Who
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.
Lauren Weisberger
Love
War
Best
Me
Book
Wife
Long
Lost
Love Story
Down
Backdrop
Stayed
Pretty
Horrors
Both
Lifetime
Put
Read
Non-Fiction
Affair
Love Affair
Fiction
After
Story
Spans
Holocaust
Serve
I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
Lauren Willig
Women
Book
Typed
Mystery
Been
Historical
Chick
Historical Fiction
Same
Romance
Lit
Fiction
I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
Lauren Willig
Book
Predict
Complain
Individual
Had
Mainstream
Reader
Readers
Very
Person
Expectations
Same
Going
Romance
Depends
Story
Really
Hard
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
Laurence Housman
Book
Writing
Thought
Long
First
Easily
Could
Writer
Knew
Always
Been
Quickly
Form
Letters
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
Laurence Olivier
Eyes
Book
Think
Would
Find
Could
Attic
Toys
Often
Behind
Forgotten
Actor
Copy
Creep
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
Laurie Anderson
Book
Words
First
Few
Books
Mystery
No Words
Had
Written
Pictures
Wrote
Children
Story
Package
My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.
Laurie Graham
Book
Dust
Perfect
Knowing
Handful
Author
Get
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
Laurie Halse Anderson
Myself
Book
Sometimes
Topic
Find
About
Know
Very
Irritated
Next
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Book
Wonderful
Reading
Brooks
About
Century
Painter
Early
Last
Last Century
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