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Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.
Isabel Gillies
Life
Feeling
Real Life
Books
Immensely
Rip
Adore
Through
Robust
Am
Real
Off
Than
Author
Get
Romance
Less
Her
There was a time when I would sit with my books and immediately put them away. I'm not dyslexic, but I was like that child in 'Taare Zameen Par.' Coincidentally, the character's name was also Ishaan.
Ishaan Khatter
Time
Character
Dyslexic
Sit
Books
Immediately
Par
Would
Put
Name
Like
Also
Child
Them
Away
What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
Isobelle Carmody
Love
Books
Battered
Over
Until
Read
Years
Being
Gratifying
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.
Italo Calvino
Think
Innovative
Books
Find
Classics
More
Through
Know
Read
Hearsay
Unexpected
Which
Them
Original
Actually
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
Italo Calvino
Energy
Books
Rules
Memoirs
Rate
More
Write
Open
Had
Without
Genuine
How
How Much
Testimonial
Been
Provide
Italy
Trying
Any
Preconceived
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Might
Modest
Notes
Plan
Us
Much
Useful
Less
Novel
Wasted
Things
Usually, if I can't fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of 'The Real Housewives.' I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion.
Ivanka Trump
Good
Me
You
Book
Will
Fall
Books
Completion
Out
Find
Table
Various
Catching
Couple
Housewives
Always
Real
Bedside
Up
Stages
Episode
Asleep
Good Book
Zoning
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. Konrath
Try
Books
Easily
Entertaining
Write
Just
When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
J. A. Konrath
Money
Single
Own
Earn
Books
Something
More
Both
Print
His
Amazon
Than
Author
Exploiting
Large
Publisher
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
J. B. Priestley
Reputation
Nothing
Books
Say
Must
Finds
Something
Rising
Writes
Wrong
Fellow
Because
His
Years
Producing
Who
Novelist
Keep
They Say
A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Books
Has-Been
High
High Percentage
Percentage
Written
Been
Des Moines
Each
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
J. I. Packer
Me
Books
Indirect
Had
Effect
Very
Profound
Lewis
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
J. K. Rowling
Think
Books
About
Audience
Who
I would always want printed books.
J. K. Rowling
Books
Would
Printed
Always
Want
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
J. M. Coetzee
Book
Writing
Signs
Nothing
Back
Books
Abhors
Staying
Spirit
More
More Or Less
Than
Going
Means
Less
Stands
Thereafter
Origin
Play
Founding
Fundamentalism
Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
Free
Practice
Reading
Think
Books
Readers
Led
Begin
Where
Want
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty
Value
Books
Through
Like
Passed
Proverbs
Chief
Esteem
Which
Stamp
Ages
Receive
'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.
Jack Canfield
Soul
Book
Result
Giving
First
Books
Points
Contains
Over
Make
Soup
Years
Chicken
Seminars
Wanted
Stories
Used
Teaching
Illustrate
Speeches
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.
Jack Canfield
Love
Great
Me
People
Writing
Genius
Value
Mark
Others
Books
Lies
More
Area
Written
Along
Great Value
Well
Another
Edited
Motivating
Than
Report
Get
Victor
Teaching
Core
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
Jack L. Chalker
People
Money
First
Books
Out
Physically
Tendency
Retain
First People
Read
Shell
Real
Off
Real Money
Screens
Anything
Novels
Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
Jack Lew
Books
Seeing
Make
Order
Decisions
Businesses
Based
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Jack Prelutsky
Myself
Reading
Lately
Books
Extremely
About
Eclectic
Trivia
Computer
Facts
Read
Been
Lot
Teaching
Graphics
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
Jack Vance
Alone
Same Thing
Books
More
More Or Less
Individual
Suppose
Read
Frequently
Least
Same
Stop
Want
Anytime
Which
Less
Thing
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Jack Vance
Me
Young
Enormous
Books
Instance
Read
Were
Influence
Oz
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Me
History
You
Humble
People
Try
Perspective
Young
Older
Everything
Books
Stay
Able
Some
Come
Been
Up
History Books
Young People
Realize
Grow
Keep
Things
I kind of slept through school. I wasn't engaged at all. My exercise books were empty at the end of the year. But I didn't sleep through drama, probably because there wasn't a desk, so my teacher sent me to this audition.
Jacob Anderson
Teacher
Me
School
Year
Drama
Slept
Books
Kind
Through
Empty
Because
Exercise
Audition
Were
End
Sent
Engaged
Desk
Sleep
Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
Jacob Weisberg
Words
Old
Dust
Type
Books
Pressed
Drawn
Out
House
Call
Historical
Jackets
Movable
Old Books
Boards
Them
Page
Moment
Filled
Raised
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