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To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
William Steig
Truth
Books
Tell
Write
Adult
Read
Just
Children
Them
Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.
Willie Nelson
Me
Writing
Joke
Books
Out
Tell
Window
Hours
Look
Couple
Because
After
Bus
Hard
Show
Fun
Here
No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Family
Me
People
Writing
Law
Husband
Films
Our
Books
About
Consult
Bothering
No-One
Particularly
Without
Surprised
Been
American
Going
Mandela
Depict
Either
Produce
Us
Who
International
Many
Even
Right
Consent
Copyright
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.
Winona LaDuke
Myself
Good
Feel Good
Book
People
Phone
Some People
Think
Tree
Trees
Books
Bad
Total
Some
Angeles
About
Bad Thing
Factory
Feel
Make
Arrested
Los
Los Angeles
Were
May
Using
Chained
Now
Waste
Thing
Gate
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Work
Me
Books
Once
Wrap
Understand
Up
Done
Closure
Mean
Fortunately
Help
Function
I read fantasy books like the Harry Potter books, 'Twilight,' also biographies, and I like to read about people who have been through stuff like wars or lost their families - real life stuff, you know? I like to read about their experiences and how they coped with that.
Wynter Gordon
Life
You
People
Lost
Real Life
Books
Harry
Harry Potter
About
Potter
Through
Stuff
Like
Know
Also
Read
How
Real
Been
Families
Experiences
Fantasy
Who
Wars
Twilight
Biographies
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
Wynton Marsalis
Time
Mother
Father
Men
Half
Books
Would
About
Never
He
Knew
Like
Talk
Half The Time
Read
Talking
Always
Educated
Were
Very
Us
Grown
Grown Men
Slaves
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Yann Martel
Book
Brilliant
Reading
Club
Think
Book Club
Meeting
Books
Something
Writer
Idea
Reader
Making
Center
Social
Speaking
Event
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
World
Books
Over
Spread
May
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
Yayoi Kusama
Art
Home
You
Book
Old
Country
Books
Find
About
Had
Countryside
Impressed
Georgia
Very
American
Shop
Information
Old Books
Little
Avant-Garde
Much
Really
English
Found
Her
I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance.
Yossi Ghinsberg
Heroes
Books
Danger
More
Adrenaline
Like
Read
Go
Jungle
Romance
Wanted
Interested
Aspect
Why
Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Home
Me
Too
Recipes
Books
Purely
Frightening
Quite
Full
Many
Even
I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
Yuri Lowenthal
Art
Time
Writing
Long
Long Time
Books
Way
Write
Had
Learn
Comic
How
Comic Books
Been
Forever
Different
Loved
Interesting
Transition
Graphic
Novel
Different Way
We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.
Yuval Noah Harari
Truth
Culture
Truth Is
World
Country
Living
Books
Independent
Tell
Only
Parochial
Countries
Longer
Particular
Global
Most
Schools
Still
Histories
Any
Us
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
Zadie Smith
Day
You
Books
Out
Find
Indian
Mutiny
About
Catalogue
Concerned
WWII
Get
Want
As Far As
Thee
Far
Roots
Last
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
Zadie Smith
You
People
Simple
Opportunities
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Books
Way
Libraries
Some
Give
Open
Know
Most
Access
Least
Educated
Expect
Offered
Same
Achievements
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
Zadie Smith
People
Made
Living
Too
Other
Books
Draw
Though
Slower
About
Structured
Student
Like
Talk
Because
Lot
Up
Suspect
Fiction
Might
Much
Novels
Actual
Deeply
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith
Books
Like
House
Around
Go
Any
Flat
Them
Keep
Mum
Copies
I hate when books are written from the wrong perspective; when they're written by adults for tweenagers. Like, do you truly remember what it's like to be 12? No, not really.
Zendaya
You
Hate
Remember
Perspective
Books
Adult
Written
Wrong
Like
Truly
Really
Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.
Zhang Zhidong
Today
Man
Learning
Master
Our
Unless
Books
One-Man
Shall
Lifetime
Western
Left
Times
Shores
Pace
Cannot
Them
Acquire
Keep
Now
Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Wonderful
Smell
Rich
Universe
Books
Mine
Slight
Entered
Libraries
Out
Window
Borrowing
Rather
Thrill
Onto
Feel
Look
Disbelief
Looked
Houses
Always
Narrow
Were
Endless
Loved
Decidedly
Which
Room
Them
Riches
Even
Treasure
I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
Zoe Foster Blake
Work
You
Writing
Wonderful
Before
Energy
Books
Weekend
Sort
Because
Blogs
Just
Then
Your
Started
No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
Zoe Foster Blake
Me
Feedback
Path
Too Much
Finished
Too
Changes
Books
Thrown
No-One
Until
Because
Reads
Off
Get
Want
Confuses
Much
Things
I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston
Regret
Books
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
bell hooks
Justice
Racism
Ending
Criticism
Feminism
Books
Written
Mostly
Dealing
Issues
Cultural
Social
Social Justice
If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
will.i.am
Mom
You
Books
Would
Liked
Up
Ask
Growing
Growing Up
Dr
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