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I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!
Suzanne Brockmann
Love
Friendship
Me
Happy
People
Diversity
Met
Affection
Lasting
Others
Books
Characters
Find
Mutual
More
Fact
Through
Exceptional
Open-Minded
Knowing
Readers
Makes
Accomplished
Intelligent
Than
Many
Even
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
Suzanne Collins
You
Playwright
Books
Plot
Characters
Structured
Invested
Developing
Demands
Like
Sort
Audience
Same
Any
Story
Creating
Your
Helps
Keeping
Started
Basically
Hone
Plays
'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.
Suzanne Collins
Me
Big
Every
Teenager
Books
Favorite
Couple
Read
Lord
Still
Years
Big Influence
Influence
Flies
After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt.
Suzanne Somers
Thoughts
Word
Negative
Guilt
Sacrifice
Reading
Own
Control
Negative Thoughts
Books
Finally
Way
Trial
Trial And Error
My Own
Weight
Obsession
Call
Practicing
Without
Reading Books
Nasty
Error
Up
Diet
After
Deprivation
Working
Body
Many
Found
Four-Letter
Program
'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject matters are varied, and I write books pertaining to that which I'm dealing with at the moment.
Suzanne Somers
Book
Matters
Books
Varied
Write
Written
Over
Look
Dealing
Subject
Get
Sixth
Which
Pertaining
Skinny
Moment
I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.
Svetlana Alexievich
Time
Long
Long Time
Books
Ten
Ten Years
Write
Take
Years
Very
Very Long Time
Five
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.
Svetlana Alexievich
War
Great
Age
People
Speak
Events
Books
About
Main
Empire
Disaster
Real
Real People
Downfall
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.
Svetlana Alexievich
People
Meet
Books
Charged
Write
Emotionally
Highly
Shock
Stories
Moments
The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we're not seeing in any other way. Unfortunately, self-publishing doesn't have that.
Sylvia Day
Other
Channel
Books
Way
Distribution
Seeing
Industry
Enables
Provides
Viable
Any
Any Other Way
Unfortunately
Which
Publishing
Wide
Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing the new technologies that were taking over the world, from 3-D printing to space travel. These conversations starting leading us to think of how we could portray these things in a musical way.
Synyster Gates
Travel
World
Space
Reading
Think
Other
Our
Books
Musical
Way
Entrepreneurial
Could
Hawking
Taking
Leading
Over
New
Singer
Printing
How
Were
Matt
Discussing
New Technologies
Space Travel
Conversations
Us
Things
Portray
Technologies
Started
Starting
Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
T. C. Boyle
Video Games
Time
People
Punk
Down
Busy
Society
Everything
Books
Worry
Easier
TV
About
More
Fact
Contemplative
Up
Any
In Fact
Wanted
Against
Movies
Video
Much
Used
Games
Multimedia
Tear
Deeply
I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
T. C. Boyle
Art
Best
You
Political
Job
Own
Think
Books
Correctly
Pretty
Scenario
Supposed
Know
Read
Reader
Doing
Where
Mean
Much
Engage
Stand
Your
Presenting
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Culture
Books
Vocabulary
Through
Mostly
Comic
Comic Books
Hip-Hop
Dungeons
Acquired
Much
Pop
Pop Culture
Dragons
You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Government
You
Change
Peace
Path
Achieve
Books
Everywhere
Able
Some
House
Course
Were
Up
May
Where
Grew
I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
People
Sorry
Books
Only
Through
Feel
Know
Comic
Comic Books
Movies
Really
Who
Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Important
Fighting
Guess
Books
Kid
Never
Part
Know
Read
Important Part
Without
Comic
Comic Books
Real
Integral
Integral Part
Real Reason
Reason
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
Tadao Ando
Today
Great
History
Architecture
Design
Think
Books
Philosophy
Those
See
Until
Read
Buildings
Italy
Historical
Greece
Where
Holds
Stand
Full
Europe
One of my favourite books when I was young was 'Wuthering Heights.'
Taika Waititi
Young
Heights
Books
Favourite
I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
Talulah Riley
Time
Walk
Before
Every
Every Time
Books
Crisis
Knowing
Read
Existential
Die
Going
I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley
Me
Pride
Big
Books
Those
Recognized
Characters
Pride And Prejudice
Knew
Exciting
Like
Reader
Loved
Literature
Really
Inhabit
Prejudice
Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
Tama Janowitz
Day
Every Day
Every
Books
Critically
Nevertheless
Well
Course
Becomes
Sell
Get
Whether
Them
Harder
Published
Received
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
Tamora Pierce
Time
News
Giving
Before
Teenagers
Unlike
Books
Topical
Besides
One Thing
More
Both
Previous
Had
Smarter
Looked
Period
Read
Material
Been
Time Period
Than
American
Anybody
Them
Newspapers
Realized
Require
Thicker
Publishers
Thing
Recently
I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
Tamora Pierce
You
People
Writing
School
Books
See
Take
Message
Messages
Call
Western
Send
Any
Samuel
Them
Union
Away
Need
I went through a phase in my 20s when I was overdosing on self-help books, so it was really refreshing to read 'The Alchemist' because it was a novel, but it still had the same wisdom, wasn't patronising and didn't tell you how you should live your life.
Tamzin Outhwaite
Life
Wisdom
You
Live
Books
Tell
Through
Had
Read
Self-Help
Because
How
Still
Same
Refreshing
Really
Should
Your
Novel
Phase
My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.
Tana French
Books
Read
Permanently
Want
Stand
Night
I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.
Tana French
Crime
Society
Took
Books
Way
Investigation
Like
Becomes
Suspicions
Where
Place
Exploration
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