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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
Tony Judt
History
Strange
Writing
Reading
Books
Saw
Rather
Reading Books
Exotic
Than
Just
Places
Based
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.
Tony Kaye
Music
Art
School
Painting
Design
Corporate
Music Video
Books
TV
TV Commercials
Through
Pictures
Come
Conceptual
Conceptual Art
Identities
Advertising
Built
Continuously
Up
Art School
Commercials
Done
Video
Billboards
Graphic
Graphic Design
Paint
Designed
Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let a reader dwell in the pangs of realization that we sometimes try to protect our children from.
Tracy K. Smith
Gift
Sometimes
Try
Parents
Our
Books
Willingness
Poignant
Protect
Reader
Dwell
Children
Subtlety
Realization
The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.
Tracy Morgan
Time
You
People
Wait
Books
Further
Tell
Write
Know
Go
Just
Moved
Story
Gonna
Now
Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
Trent Reznor
You
Better
Design
Books
Way
Look
Because
Than
Want
Movies
Set
I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.
Trevor Rabin
Myself
Good
Me
Guitar
Lesson
Books
Ways
Find
Pretty
Pretty Good
Piano
Never
Had
Allowed
Exercise
Led
Taught
Different
Which
Different Ways
Actually
Technique
Things
I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.
Trinny Woodall
Love
Together
Cooking
Amazing
Will
Accident
Recipe
Books
Total
Put
Catastrophe
Idea
Like
Might
Using
Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.
Trip Adler
Music
Will
Other
Type
Our
Books
Papers
Main
Content
Sheet
Scientific
Comic
Comic Books
Include
Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
Troy Duffy
Video Games
Three
Books
Steadily
Between
Sort
Always
Becoming
Comic
Comic Books
Been
Ultimately
Link
Movies
Video
Then
Games
Basically
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tryon Edwards
Power
Living
Books
More
More Power
Dead
Read
Very
Than
Often
Should
Company
Keep
Careful
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
Tucker Max
Future
World
Money
Better
Better World
Living
Books
Bit
Frankly
Rather
Make
Little
Little Bit
Means
Less
Less Money
Publishing
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
Twinkle Khanna
Time
You
Science
Words
Uncle
Important
Reading
Teens
Books
Had
Head
Read
Because
Science Fiction
Maternal
Fiction
Your
Who
Fill
By The Time
I am not a gym person, so I do walk a lot. I find gym is incredibly boring. Other thing I do is to devour books because I feel we need to feed our mind as well.
Twinkle Khanna
Walk
Mind
Other
Incredibly
Our
Books
Find
Boring
Gym
Feed
Feel
Well
Devour
Because
Am
Lot
Person
Thing
Need
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.
Twyla Tharp
Books
Guys
Read
Learned
Dickens
Craft
Tolstoy
Novels
Letters
I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.
Tyler Hilton
Good
Great
Whatever
Books
Like
Read
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Anything
Whether
Really
I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.
Tyron Woodley
Phone
Police
Drive
Books
Beat
Beaten
Had
Put
Police Officers
Been
Off
Up
Friends
Officers
Them
Then
Who
I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.
Tyrone Hayes
Finished
Reading
Books
Considered
Most
Reading Books
Math
Grade
Disruptive
Third
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul
Books
Tend
Write
Writers
End
Many
Lives
All I want is to be left alone to write my books.
Vaclav Smil
Alone
Books
Write
Left
Want
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
Val McDermid
Time
Bible
School
Mysteries
Second-Hand
Books
Later
Spent
Libraries
Only
Developed
House
Were
Discovered
Sales
Lot
Jumble
Taste
Holidays
Then
Grandparents
Copy
It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
Val McDermid
Changed
Books
Bit
Would
Also
How
How Much
Began
Get
Much
Unimaginable
Ever
The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
Val McDermid
Few
Books
Had
Over
Because
Scientists
Years
Forensic
Up
Ended
Quite
Conversations
Thing
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
Val McDermid
Time
You
Writing
Feeling
Books
Way
Write
Writers
Written
Demanded
Like
Most
Always
Off
Wanted
Your
Start
I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
Val McDermid
Writing
World
Think
Books
Ourselves
Formed
Us
Fully
Many
My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.
Valerie Harper
Book
Remember
Mother
Club
Books
Month
Buck
Looked
She
Always
Forward
Pearl
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
Van Wyck Brooks
Me
Bible
Mind
Unlike
Books
Once
Said
American
Formed
Newspapers
English
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