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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. A. S. Byatt

Life My Life Books Were Child Wartime

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. A. S. Byatt

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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books. A. S. Byatt

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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him. A. Scott Berg

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good. Aaron Ashmore

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. Aaron Ashmore

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We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have products they use and their favorite sweet treats. They all have to write to-do lists, and they're all reading books - well, hopefully most people are doing those things. Abbi Jacobson

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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! Abu Bakar Bashir

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest. Ada Hegerberg

To Be Honest Books Like Read Lot Honest

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books. Ada Yonath

Father Books Background Religious Born Rather Did Rabbi Poor Jerusalem

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. Adam Brody

You Idiot Think Books Nerdy Computers Comic Comic Books

Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books. Adam Christopher

I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house. Adam DeVine

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I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea. Adam Johnson

My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it. Adam Mansbach

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else. Adam Rapp

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I haven't read the 'Twilight' books, though I suppose, in general, I thought it might be fun to deflate all of the notions of vampire sexiness, secret societies, the idea that anyone could learn to divide the population of the world between fellow vampires and perishable food sources and expect to retain their humanity, etc. Adam Rex

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All my books center around death in some way. Adam Silvera

Death Books Way Some Around Center

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books. Adora Svitak

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I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish. Adrian Tomine

Publish Think Books Response New Cover Five Get Yorker New Yorker

'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own. Adrian Tomine

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I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest. Adriana Trigiani

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people. Adriana Trigiani

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