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A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. Lionel Shriver
Book Presidency Crummy Between Feels Covers Trump Really
Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review. Lionel Shriver
Book Will Few Review Amazon Depth Explore
Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel's fans, and blighted my reputation forever. Lionel Shriver
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Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. Lionel Shriver
Book People Rare Merely Like Well Because Oddly Surprisingly
In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes. Lionel Shriver
Buy Woman Heart Women Book Men Every Unlike Books Way Williams Presume Sexes About Only Both Looks Venus Era Even Appears Publishers Soft
I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker. Lisa Graff
Book Research Counselor Nanny Editor Been Camp Lab Children Movie Theater Movie Theater Assistant
I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know? Lisa Hanawalt
Love You Book String Attached Know Pieces Sniff Scratch Pages Plastic
When I made the leap from category romance to larger single-title books, I was encouraged to make the book 'big,' and suspense was allowed. Over the years, I've been able to write the kind of books I love, with a balance of suspense and romance. How lucky am I? Lisa Jackson
Love Balance Book Made Big Books Kind Able Write Allowed Over Category Leap Make How Am Been Years Encouraged Suspense Romance Lucky Larger
Writing a book is not easy. Lisa Jewell
Book Writing Easy
Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set. Lisa Jewell
Book Brilliant Every Inspiration Read Box Influence Movie Watch Set
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years. Lisa Jewell
Buy Book Writing Half Reading Hooked Married Guy Had He Until Half Years Got Years Again Really Who Many Four
I don't think my first book was chick lit. Lisa Jewell
Book First Think Chick Lit
I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail & I,' a British film from 1987. It's funny and sad and absolutely gorgeous to look at. It's the film I can watch over and over again. Lisa Lutz
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I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never know at the outset how the book will end, nor do I ever stick to my original plan. Lisa Lutz
Book Will Sense Ways Characters Throughout Outset Never Know Stick How Nor End Where Transform Which Might Personally Plan Original Novel Ever
While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them and then opening another door and another until I found something. It was a while before I found my stride. Lisa Lutz
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'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don't share that obsession, I can't recommend this book highly enough. Lisa Lutz
You Book Enough Dan Else Recommend Someone Share Disappearing Idea Obsessed Highly Obsession Always Becoming Been Reply Your Await Even
I've repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties. Lisa Madigan
Book Lie People Seen Every Penalties Broker Charm Rates Features Put Con Toxic Repeatedly Paid Use Premium Actually Loans
We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate. Lisa Murkowski
Book States Run Write How Campaign Senate Successful United United States United States Senate
If you are a responsible scientist, you are going to present your new results in a paper, and maybe if, over time, things are established, and it's prime time for the public to hear about it, then you include it in a book. Lisa Randall
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If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house. Lisa Scottoline
Book Would Never Tours House Leave Were
I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me. Lisa Scottoline
Me Book People Mind Too Much Too Way About Open Open Book Know Am Literally Much
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. Lisa See
Home You Book First Big Spring Back Books Kindle Trip Picked Bought Like Know Cambodia Came Up Thailand Did Just Little Vietnam Right Right Back Night
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one. Lisa See
Art You Book Think Say Kind One Thing Writer Well Art Form Just Different Form Film Thing
I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them. Lisa Unger
You Book Little Things Girl Enjoy Kind Kindle Some Some Things Instant Instant Gratification Bound Like Convenience Little Them Gratification Things
In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, which is why it is very satisfying. With the help of a great compatible editor, you really have something in the end you can call your own. Liz Tuccillo
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Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them. Lloyd Alexander
Time Change Book Old Lose Stage Other Our Our Lives Favorite Favorites Give Directly Never Particular Most Sort Always Accumulate Just Them Us Speaks Lives Need
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