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You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
Jacqueline Woodson
You
People
White
Too
Books
Color
Like
Just
Many
I'm so into the Boss and who he is, and I've read all his books, and I've watched every DVD, and I love every bit of his music: I would hate for, like, something to happen and ruin it for me. You know what I mean?
Jake Peavy
Love
Music
Me
You
Hate
Every
Ruin
Books
Bit
Would
Something
Boss
He
Like
Know
Read
His
Happen
Mean
Who
Watched
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.
Jamais Cascio
Value
Websites
Too
Books
Journals
Real
Real Value
Useful
Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.
James A. Moore
Me
Books
Those
Eye
Out
About
More
Consumer
Catch
Know
Make
Reader
Covers
Behind
Want
Stand
Designed
Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.
James Bernard Frost
Education
You
College
White
Every
Everyone
Books
Francisco
Easy
Charitable
College Education
Dave
Prose
Powerful
Piece
Also
Him
His
Amazingly
Person
Done
Just
Wants
San
San Francisco
Interest
Mean
Works
Lived
Now
Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.
James Blaylock
Young
Books
Favorite
Some
Adult
Read
Young Adult
My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
James Burrows
Good
You
Father
Books
Television
Writer
Between
Halfway
Were
Being
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.
James D. Watson
Me
Rain
Passion
Father
Bird
First
Books
Evolution
Charles
About
Darwin
Had
Indoors
Schoolboy
Read
Learned
Became
Still
His
Chicago
Up
Snow
While
Growing
Growing Up
Aware
Kept
I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep.
James Dashner
Love
You
Dark
Humor
Books
Bit
Magical
More
Light-Hearted
Feel
Get
Quirky
Little
Little Bit
Really
Deep
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
James Earl Jones
Big
Reading
Books
Out
Stick
Were
Yes
Big Thing
Newspapers
Thing
Things
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
James Ellroy
Book
Every
Books
Killer
Exception
Written
Road
Which
Viewpoint
Serial
Cops
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.
James Franco
Music
You
Will
Books
Those
Kind
Tacit
Direct
Area
Through
Write
Allowed
Roadblocks
Invisible
Sort
Lot
Artwork
Crash
Gain
Movies
Skepticism
Barriers
Belief
Actor
I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
James Frey
Good
Books
Recognised
Kind
Bad
Writer
Never
Coverage
Sell
Expected
Get
Many
Street
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
James Frey
Work
Good
World
Books
Release
Write
Any
Going
Just
Decide
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
James Gleick
Good
Change
People
Complaining
Thought
Too
Books
Philosophy
Press
Ways
Soon
Course
Printing
Printing Press
Were
Going
Human
Europe
Many
Flooding
Human Thought
Necessarily
Started
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.
James Gleick
Day
You
Book
Words
Will
Made
Books
Paper
Say
Ways
Collection
Kindle
Someday
Variety
Could
Bound
Between
Obsolete
Read
Printed
Still
Covers
Text
Cloth
Organized
Thing
Necessarily
Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.
James Gunn
You
Young
Back
Books
Say
Kid
Kids
Something
Could
Missouri
Read
Comic
Comic Books
Comics
Were
Did
Manchester
Young Kid
Then
I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.
James Herbert
Think
Books
High
Literate
Literature
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.
James Herbert
Myself
Me
Imagination
Other
Worlds
Unknown
Books
Kid
Out
Would
About
Take
Develop
Read
Always
Comic
Comic Books
Comics
Historical
Cowboy
Stories
Loved
Which
Places
Used
Helped
I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.
James Hillman
Work
Me
World
Sometimes
Drop
Books
Obliged
Obsession
Read
Calls
Wonder
Want
Whether
Interest
Fulfill
Should
Watch
Necessity
Phenomena
I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.
James McBride
Work
Me
Chapter
First
Type
Typewriter
Spending
Books
Computer
Leaf
Most
Lean
End
Up
Move
Then
Pages
Use
Manual
Describing
Helps
Keep
Two
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
James McBride
Jazz
Living
Earn
Books
Stay
Something
Horse
Like
Involving
How
Rode
I read more history books than anything else.
James McBride
History
Else
Books
More
Read
History Books
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?
James Patterson
You
Business
Book
Nobody Cares
Big
Cares
Books
Out
Find
About
Nobody
Stuff
Because
None
Go
Cover
Were
Covered
Lot
Reviews
Commercial
Get
Movie
Theater
Movies
Pages
Reason
Many
Even
Why
Imagine
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
James Patterson
Solitude
Complicated
Hundred
Books
Hundred Years
Favorite
Years
Ulysses
Very
Actually
With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
James Patterson
Great
Parents
First
Books
Kids
About
Percent
Weeks
Adult
Longer
Like
Terms
Sales
Going
Six
Stores
Which
Means
Now
Buying
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