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I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes. Kathryn Stockett

Law White Think Changed Books Kitchens Had Lot Up Oh Grew Whole Homes

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have. Kathy Reichs

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Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books! Keegan Allen

Problem Long Reading Books Once Something Read Stop Which Start

One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books was the Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin's 'Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization' (1995), a study of the steel city of Magnitogorsk, the U.S.S.R.'s answer to Pittsburgh, as it was constructed in the shadow of the Ural Mountains in the early nineteen-thirties. Keith Gessen

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When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he threw on my bed when he was finished with them. This continued throughout my childhood and made me a reader for life. Keith Hernandez

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I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French. Kellan Lutz

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I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended. Kelly Sue DeConnick

Our Books Recommended Only Write Policy Cover Reviews Loved Used

My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.' Kem Nunn

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I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head. Kem Nunn

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I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else. Ken Bruen

Myself Nothing Else Books Alive Write Still Prove Just Decided

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. Ken Follett

You Become Books Would Writer Reader Without

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. Ken Follett

Women Books Characters Rather Thrillers Masculine Been Very Often Decorative

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing? Ken Follett

Great Amazing Language Sold Books Almost German Million

Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities presented by their substance and form. Ken Liu

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I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel. Kenneth Oppel

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I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality exciting. When I went out to play with friends, I always arranged elaborate sets and costumes. Kerli

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I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it. Kerry Greenwood

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I don't think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It's not logical, and it's not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write. Kerry Greenwood

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We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. Kevin Ayers

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You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing. Kevin Bacon

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