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I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
Leslie Fiedler
Time
Book
Tough
First
Pay
Way
Complex
More
Tough Time
Had
He
Liked
Him
Read
Got
Off
Very
Much
Really
Less
Each
Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.
Lev Grossman
Mistake
Book
Hate
Human Being
Unlike
Would
Would-Be
Hating
Tempting
Fact
Except
Know
Go
Author
Person
Human
Just
Being
In Fact
Personally
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
Lev Grossman
Book
World
Smart
Diversity
Enough
Guess
Our
Latter
Out
Kind
Run
Through
Had
Healthier
Amazon
Current
Substantially
Different
Literary
Which
Figure
Many
Platforms
Publishers
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
Lev Grossman
Book
Stumble
Enjoy
Critics
Weird
Occasionally
Because
Accidentally
Person
Just
Controversy
Just Because
Your
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
Lev Grossman
Best
Book
School
Reading
Plot
Brooks
About
Read
Lot
Endings
Graduate
Graduate School
Literary
Theory
Peter
Novels
Ever
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
Lev Grossman
Book
Ending
Bad
Something
Habit
Gotten
Forgiving
Just
Middle
Novel
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
Lev Grossman
Book
Young
Group
Books
Rule
Only
Adult
Read
Young Adult
Fiction
If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'
Lewis Black
Government
You
Book
Harry
Harry Potter
System
Potter
Pick
Around
Going
Want
Base
Why
Why Not
I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.
Lewis Grizzard
Life
Time
Me
Book
My Life
Wish
Other
One Time
Could
Write
Writers
Go
Get
Spain
Villa
It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.
Lewis Hamilton
Me
Attention Span
Book
Small
Takes
Attention
Read
Forever
Span
There's no rules. Show me the rule book.
Liam Gallagher
Me
Book
Rule
Rule Book
Rules
No Rules
Show
She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
Liam Gallagher
Alone
Book
Walk
Gum
Write
She
Line
Chew
Straight
Straight Line
Even
We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. And then part of it we shot all the reaping stuff, which was just crazy - because the reaping in the book and in the script is such an emotional thing for everyone. It really did feel like that when we were shooting it.
Liam Hemsworth
Beautiful
Crazy
Book
Everyone
Emotional
Emotional Thing
Part
Feel
Stuff
Like
Because
Were
Forests
Did
Shooting
Just
Place
Which
Script
Then
Shot
Really
Reaping
Thing
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
Liam Neeson
Book
Mind
Reading
Think
Back
Some
Slowly
Totally
More
Scene
Unrelated
Could
Wrong
Opened
Come
Bed
Years
Years Ago
Did
Door
Sentence
Across
Play
Night
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.
Libba Bray
Life
Love
You
Book
Adolescence
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Still
Arrows
Survive
Did
Any
Just
To Love
Help
I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.
Libba Bray
Me
You
Book
Big
Living
Kid
Inside
Web
Charlotte
Could
Feel
Reader
Were
Actually
It's all run by one person, but, real talk, Brandon McCartney is a book author, the Based God is perfect and Lil B is the trendsetter, the person that everyone follows and pays attention to.
Lil B
God
Book
Everyone
Run
Follows
Perfect
Attention
Talk
Real
Author
Person
McCartney
Pays
Based
You are not dead until you are in that grave, so don't close the book. Don't give up.
Lillete Dubey
You
Book
Give
Until
Dead
Up
Close
Grave
I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.
Linda Lael Miller
Good
Book
Think
Our
Worries
Troubles
Like
Get
Good Book
Away
I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did.
Linda Ronstadt
Work
Saying
Book
About
Put
Contacts
Couple
Got
Contract
Did
Just
Different
Which
Interested
Companies
Specifically
Publishing
Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
Linda Sue Park
Work
Time
Me
Book
Girl
Three
Half
Year
Publish
Books
Months
Write
Take
Taken
Takes
Name
Another
Altogether
Years
Up
Eight
Different
Length
Each
Publisher
Four
With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
Linda Sue Park
War
Book
Try
Imagination
Bit
Out
About
Write
Idea
Know
Because
Felt
Korean
Least
Understood
Korean War
Cultural
Score
Fix
American
Did
Going
Tiny
Want
Much
Really
Keeping
Set
I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
Linda Tripp
Book
Write
I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.
Lindsay Pearce
Day
Me
Book
Try
Free
Girl
Somewhere
Feeling
Practice
Recipes
Our
Hunt
Laughing
Trip
About
Beach
Slumber
Gym
Records
Excited
Road
Adventures
New
Days
Like
Bake
Parties
Go
Off
Friends
Yoga
Shop
Want
Anything
Really
Keeps
I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.
Lindsey Stirling
Buy
Best
You
Travel
Book
People
First
Too
Everywhere
Out
Bad
Bad Thing
Hear
Just
Being
Different
Want
Happened
Story
Being Different
Turned
Shows
Why
Ever
Thing
Career
You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.
Linwood Barclay
Best
You
Trust
Eyes
Book
Better
Way
Say
Out
Possible
Find
Seem
Written
Know
Always
How
Editors
Go
Fix
Any
Listen
Want
Your
Even
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