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I have been as influenced by music and films as by books. Kevin Barry

Music Films Books Been Influenced

Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps. The small west of Ireland cities and the working classes there have almost never appeared in Irish literature, simply because those communities were never in the way of producing books. Kevin Barry

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One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books. Kevin Barry

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I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. Kevin J. Anderson

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books. Kevin J. Anderson

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I spend a frightening amount of money on books. Kevin McCloud

Money Spend Books Frightening Amount

People do write books. Kevin Pietersen

People Books Write

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books. Kevin Smith

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I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. Kevin Wilson

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My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children. Khaled Hosseini

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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films. Khaled Hosseini

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me. Khaled Hosseini

Success Me Books Bewildering Surprise

I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house. Khaled Hosseini

Parents Books Had Volumes House Around Lot Up Grew Omar

My books never go where I think they're going. Khaled Hosseini

Think Books Never Go Going Where

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.' Killer Mike

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I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books. Kimberly Willis Holt

Books How Amazed Tiniest Moments Grow

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript. Kiran Desai

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After writing two books featuring amazing dogs, I decided to be owned by one. Kirby Larson

Writing Amazing Books Dogs Owned After Decided Two

I love all the 'Harry Potter' books. Those are just my favorites. Kirstin Maldonado

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I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening. Korky Paul

'Winnie The Witch' transgresses all cultural boundaries. Amusingly, there have been attempts to deconstruct the meaning of the books - that Winnie represents society and Wilbur the disabled - but I think it's just a great story. Korky Paul

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