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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. Emily Dickinson
Me Mother Care Father Mind Thought Fears Sister Busy Too Books Brother Brother And Sister He Read Because Does His Them Notice Many Buys
I really try to focus on my books and readers. Emily Giffin
Try Focus Books Readers Really
My books aren't autobiographical. Emily Giffin
Books Autobiographical
I like to be asked about the projects I'm working on. I like to be asked about the books I'm reading, the things I'm interested in, what's exciting me right now, or even politics. Sometimes that's fun. Emily Ratajkowski
Politics Me Sometimes Reading Books Projects About Exciting Like Interested Asked Working Fun Even Now Right Things
I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage. Emily Weiss
Youth Culture Books Rites Like Identity Passage Explore Youth Culture
I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. Emma Donoghue
Books Come Most Always Been Up Inclined
I read three books a week. Emma Donoghue
Three Books Week Read
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books. Emma Donoghue
Book Space Finished Giving Books Habit Had Soon Because Housing Got Cambridge Keep Lived Away
If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists - things they actually need and can make use of. Emma Gonzalez
You School Books Supplies Arm Schools Make Want Them Use Help Therapists Actually Things Need
I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as well, but they were definitely the best for just switching my brain off, not having to deal with reality. Emma Healey
Life Best Reality My Life Living Saved Other Books Way Boon Definitely Having Feel Like Well Read Deal Were Brain Lot Off Just Switching Mills
When I was very small, I loved 'Meg And Mog' by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. I had all the books and remember going to see the theatre production. Emma Healey
Theatre Remember Books See Small Had Very Going Loved Production
I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time. Emma Watson
Time You Memories Book Song Back Books Take Picking Like Another Another Time Up Just Lovely Place Again Themselves Playing
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. Enid Blyton
Work Time Films Books Lies Give Almost Talks Very Children Little Little Time Wholly Grown-Ups
I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love. Enid Blyton
Love Mother Every Books Kingdom Adult Name Suppose Practically Knows Talking Although Am Children Interested Much Really
I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Consider Books Piano House Without
If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. Eric Kandel
You Strong Perspective Books Tend Read Historical Any
I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model. Eric Walters
Teacher Me Feedback First Books Would Classes Give Give Me Wrote Read Model Role Role Model Trying
We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living. Erich Hoeber
Living Despite Books Way Would Would-Be Fact Make Comic Comic Books Doing Really Fun
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson! Erich Segal
Love Beatles Love Story Translation Books Latin Plus About Dated Both Scholarly Wrote Kramer Yellow Submarine June Screenplay Story Games Stanley Novel Olympic Olympic Games Two
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt. Erik Larson
Day Writing Young Imagination Books One Day Though Favorite About Horseback David Mornings How Nonfiction Go His Lit Might Roosevelt Flood Teddy Teddy Roosevelt
I never recreate dialogue. I have often been asked by people, 'You must have made this up because this is dialogue, right?' Anything in my books that is in quotes comes from some kind of living historical document: a letter, a memoir, a court transcript, a newspaper interview. Erik Larson
You People Made Living Interview Books Kind Must Memoir Some Recreate Never Document Because Court Dialogue Been Historical Up Often Anything Quotes Newspaper Asked Letter Right
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but being a former journalist, I'm always interested in, like, why write about something today? Why do it now? Erik Larson
Today Book Writing Care Will Somebody Journalist Think Tying Else Books Rule About Something Write Feel Anniversary Like Also Readers Always Am Subject Very Same Just Being Former Interested Skeptical Now Why Guarantees
I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also read Dumas, Dickens, Poe, Conan Doyle, and Cornelius Ryan's war books. As to favorite character: I'm torn between Nancy, on whom I had an unseemly crush, and Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo. Erik Larson
War Character Monte Books Favorite Promiscuous Torn Drew Poe Count Never Had Conan Between Crush Nancy Also Read Reader Boy Dickens Loved Swift Tom Whom Hardy
I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark subjects, but I don't think of myself necessarily as a dark-humored person. I like having a lot of fun. Erik Larson
Love Myself Writing Dark Think Books About Having Tend Write Open Like Lot Subjects Person Just Anything Fun Necessarily
A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain. Erik Larson
Reading Spend Books Could Writer Terrain Years Historical Just Gain Grasp
In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one reason or another, faded from contemporary awareness. Erik Larson
World Events Awareness Books Once Hunting About Faded Attention Ideas Look Contemporary Another Stories Reason
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