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I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.
Arijit Singh
Reading
Books
Bengali
Fond
Like
Read
Am
Short
Stories
Short Stories
English
Connect
Novels
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
Art Spiegelman
Beautiful
Technology
Book
Language
Our
Books
Phrase
Physical
Threatens
More
Since
New
Know
Also
Making
Been
Off
Than
Middle
Being
Middle Ages
Them
Capable
Ages
I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.
Art Spiegelman
Will
Same Thing
Believe
Books
Collectors
Someone
Remain
Like
Always
Real
Been
Same
Substantial
Nostalgic
Interest
Loves
Who
Thing
Vinyl
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.
Arthur Phillips
Needs
Word
Before
Think
Too
Market
Books
Memoir
Memoirs
Well
Industry
Readers
Another
Get
Gets
Justified
Should
Rid
Many
Now
Shrinking
Published
Right
As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.
Arthur Slade
Good
Family
You
People
Writing
Feedback
Reading
Books
Once
Members
More
Review
Times
Get
Family Members
Getting
Just
While
Paid
Your
Actually
Enjoyable
Start
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
Arthur Smith
Travel
Books
Lodge
Boring
Fact
Between
Autobiography
Fiction
Large
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.
Arundhati Roy
Life
Me
You
People
Writing
Job
Think
Universe
Spend
Books
Way
Ease
Invested
Writer
Emotionally
Opposed
Go
Opposite
Reviews
Festivals
Them
Your
Manufacture
Professionalism
Awards
Shrink
All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.
Arundhati Roy
Good
Care
Guardian
Thinking
Books
Way
About
Come
Reacting
Real
Accidental
Review
dont Care
Get
Did
Oh
Engaging
Things
To suggest that immigration is the exclusive domain of the federal government, disallowing partnerships with local law enforcement, defies the will of Congress, not to mention reality. Numerous local jurisdictions have laws on the books dealing with immigration in a variety of ways.
Asa Hutchinson
Government
Reality
Immigration
Law
Will
Congress
Numerous
Local
Books
Ways
Law Enforcement
Laws
Variety
Mention
Federal
Federal Government
Exclusive
Partnerships
Dealing
Domain
Enforcement
Suggest
I never think I want to go to another World Cup just to be in the record books again and play in six tournaments or four World Cups. If I am lucky enough to go, I want to go there to fight for my place and win something in an England shirt.
Ashley Cole
Fight
World
Win
Think
Enough
Books
Record
Something
Never
Tournaments
Another
Am
Go
Cup
Cups
Shirt
Six
Just
Want
Place
Again
England
Lucky
World Cup
World Cups
Play
Four
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.
Ashwin Sanghi
Love
Me
Book
Mother
Thought
Reading
Young
Every
Other
Books
Out
Would
Would-Be
Classic
About
Thrillers
Week
Write
Piece
Always
Been
Hand
Anything
Which
To Love
Grandfather
Ask
Used
Fascinated
Biography
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
Ashwin Sanghi
Myself
Good
Writing
Words
Important
Research
Books
Spinning
Objective
More
Writer
Primary
Yarn
Than
Goes
Story
Which
Storyteller
Much
View
Use
Incidental
Each
Hence
Each One
Extensive
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
Man
Be Happy
Happy
World
Books
Possible
At Least One
Thousand
Himself
Least
Surround
Ordinary
Place
Which
Ordinary Man
Two
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
Avi
Writing
Reading
Books
Kid
Week
Write
Writer
Writers
Read
Became
How
Five
Four
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
Avi Arad
Life
Great
Fears
Reading
Understanding
Real Life
Think
Our
Books
Hopes
Great Literature
About
Bothered
No-One
Dealing
Real
Metaphors
Being
Literature
Again
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.
Ayobami Adebayo
Best
Writing
School
First
Year
Books
Several
Student
Had
Pile
Subjects
Won
Ended
Stack
Short
Just
Established
Being
Stories
Decided
Short Stories
Notebooks
Being The Best
Included
Fill
Routine
Number
I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.
Ayushmann Khurrana
Life
Theatre
Books
Observe
Read
Lot
Movies
Watch
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
B. B. King
Saying
Nature
Me
History
You
Better
Think
Books
Pleases
Head
Nobody
Learn
Got
Still
Want
Shoulders
Here
Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
Barbara Delinsky
Own
Sense
Setting
Too
Books
Characters
Variety
Writer
Readers
Different
Themes
Each
Last
Need
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Home
Book
People
Interior
Sit
Few
Books
Unread
Take
Glance
Over
Know
Around
Boxes
Am
Prisons
Ambitious
Donate
Just
Wants
Pack
Them
Decorating
Really
Element
Thing
Serving
Last
It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
Barbara Hambly
Love
Strange
Old
Digital
Books
Those
Take
Up
Current
Either
Old Books
While
Show
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
Barbara Kingsolver
People
Books
Tell
Invite
Expectations
Any
Want
Them
Bring
I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
Barbara Park
Internet
Reading
Too
Books
Hurtful
About
Because
Stopped
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
History
Science
Thought
Books
Crippled
Silent
Civilization
Without
Dumb
Literature
Standstill
Speculation
Books are humanity in print.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Humanity
Books
Print
In Print
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank
Me
Attention Span
Writing
Other
Books
Slightest
Distraction
Would
Could
Write
Take
Attention
Hand
Pat
Legislate
Short
Short Attention Span
Span
Away
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