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What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash. Lauren Myracle

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Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been Jewish, and I wouldn't be surprised if all my future main characters were as well. Lauren Weisberger

Future Myself Consider Books Characters Writer Main Protagonists Well Course Am Were Surprised Been Five Jewish

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. Laurence Housman

You World Stage Books Way Would Would-Be All The World Entire Only Write Romantic Loved Clumsy Should Letters

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person. Laurie Graham

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The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard. Laurie Halse Anderson

Life Feedback Books Get Anything Really Hard Honest

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books. Laurie R. King

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. Lawrence Clark Powell

Life Unless Books Indeed Dead Readers Them Use Things Bring

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. Lawrence Clark Powell

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.' Laz Alonso

Life Work Day Thought My Life Looking Books Computer Weeks Sitting Pitch Just Where Working Desk Suit

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way. LeVar Burton

Books Way Out Cost-Effective Had How Produce Figure

I discovered that I, a writer of what is known as creative nonfiction, could do the research and bridge the gap in my books and lectures through true storytelling. This is not 'dumbing down' or writing for eighth graders. It is writing for readers across cultures, age barriers, social and political landscapes. Lee Gutkind

Creative Age Writing Political Research Down Books Could Through Writer True Known Readers Nonfiction Discovered Lectures Cultures Eighth Storytelling Social Across Landscapes Barriers Bridge Gap

My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist. Leila Janah

Authors have a nationality; books do not. Leila Slimani

Books Authors Nationality

Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from what other scientists are doing. You have to tie concepts into everyday life, or they just won't be interesting for readers. Leonard Mlodinow

Life You Writing Everyday Life Whatever Think Other Everyday Books Tried Somewhat Concepts Make Tie Readers Makes Always Doing Scientists Personal Just Different Interesting Worked

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work. Leonard Nimoy

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