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The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.
Joyce Carol Oates
Enjoy
Otherwise
Books
New
Most
Read
Review
Very
York
New York
Substantial
Them
Much
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.
Joyce Carol Oates
Hope
Experience
Listening
Reading
Few
Own
Books
Find
My Own
More
Investigate
How
Sound
Yes
Listen
Quite
Listened
Just
Wanted
Format
Fascinating
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about.
Joyce Carol Oates
Money
Care
Sold
Books
About
No Interest
Could
Written
Idea
Know
Look
How
How Much
How Much Money
Lot
Up
dont Care
Just
Interest
Them
Much
Many
Things
Copies
Royalties
As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.
Juan Williams
Money
Political
Internet
Finish Line
Enormous
Approach
Books
Extreme
Inside
About
Finish
Through
Chatter
Take
Polarization
Voters
Readers
Line
Campaigns
Efforts
Reporters
Social
Elections
Among
Applications
Flowing
When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all.
Judith Hoag
Strange
Thought
First
Teenage
Books
Ninja
Mutant
Horror
Horror Film
Name
Comic
Comic Books
Heard
Film
A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.
Judith McNaught
Happy
Books
Joyous
Readers
Leave
Endings
Romance
Should
Novel
Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.'
Judy Blume
Eyes
School
Finished
Setting
Books
Kids
Born
New
Until
Tiger
Because
New Jersey
New Mexico
Mexico
Moved
Where
Then
Many
Elementary
Lived
Elementary School
Jersey
Raised
Set
My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read!
Judy Blume
You
Reminisce
Husband
Books
Frank
Those
About
Through
Like
Tales
Know
Witches
Read
How
Wizards
Were
Taught
Oz
Loved
Subversive
Straight
Us
Series
Filled
When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books.
Judy Blume
Happy
Young
Books
Say
Hart
Around
Still
Author
Loved
Which
Series
I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'
Judy Blume
Me
Book
Trouble
Books
Until
Calls
Always
Editor
Judy
Title
Titles
Present
Need
I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education.
Judy Blume
Education
Great
College
Wish
Gone
Books
Small
Instead
Read
Where
Large
University
I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents.
Judy Blume
Censorship
Parents
Fire
Thinking
Books
Those
Out
Tell
Share
Support
Come
Wrote
Reviews
Sending
Children
Want
Information
Them
Who
Include
Why
Letters
Defend
At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.
Judy Blume
Love
Time
Daughter
Reading
Young
Books
About
Had
Wrote
She
Lot
Forever
It embarrasses me to flaunt anything good written about me or my books. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that.
Judy Blume
Good
Me
Books
About
Written
Supposed
Know
Anything
In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on.
Judy Blume
Book
Made
Books
Give
Up
Grade
Reports
Sixth
For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.
Juergen Teller
Beautiful
Birthday
Me
Made
Looking
Gave
Slide
Books
Striking
Those
Out
Photographs
He
Most
Cry
Cousin
Were
Forgotten
Stored
Which
Dad
Present
Profound
I like the idea that things can exist in different formats - in a gallery, a fashion ad, in books.
Juergen Teller
Fashion
Books
Idea
Like
Exist
Different
Formats
Gallery
Things
Ad
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.
Julia Glass
Best
Good
Great
Guidance
Writing
School
Few
Nothing
Extraordinary
Books
Say
High
High School
Cross
Good Teachers
Students
Had
Like
Still
Very
Often
Teachers
Teaches
Help
English
Bridge
Whom
Credit
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.
Julia Glass
Love
Father
Books
Astonishing
Pleasures
Born
Variety
Tactile
Scholar
House
Just
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.
Julia Glass
Survival
Other
Books
Bookstores
Somewhat
Merchandise
Sadly
Selling
Than
Depends
Many
Now
I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.
Julia Glass
Love
Best
Myself
Home
Opportunity
Country
Consider
Books
Favorite
One Of The Things
Pretty
Cosmos
About
Never
Come
Read
Around
Always
Heard
Reviews
Authors
Literary
Might
Notes
Realize
Compare
Things
I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.
Julian Barnes
Complete
Books
Democrat
Terms
Who
Buys
I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.
Julian Clary
Time
Thought
Country
Live
Dignified
Books
Would
Would-Be
Write
Thing
By The Time
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.
Julian Fellowes
Think
Unkind
Books
Readers
Person
I read books more than I go out.
Julie Bowen
Books
Out
More
Read
Go
Than
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.
Julie Bowen
Day
Matter
Will
Books
Out
Some
Russell
About
More
Crowded
Fact
Habits
Over
Concerned
Read
Go
Than
Get
Any
Banks
Bar
Little
Choose
Night
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