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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
M. J. Rose
Books
Hundreds
Thousands
Faced
Consumers
Choices
When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
M. J. Rose
Mom
Book
Sometimes
School
Mother
Mysteries
Books
Kid
About
Never
Genres
Talked
Read
Were
Nor
Did
Many
Differentiate
I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.
M. J. Rose
Universe
Incredibly
Market
Books
Frankly
Boring
Stayed
Something
Cater
Well
Advertising
Readers
Another
Felt
Been
Fit
Began
Going
Might
Create
Found
Specific
Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
M. J. Rose
Great
Stage
Our
Books
Visions
Recognize
Entertainers
Great Majority
Faces
Voices
Majority
Sells
Trained
Stories
Us
Bodies
Actor
Presence
I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.
M. K. Hobson
Love
Family
Wind
Gone
Books
Those
Like
Huge
Gone With The Wind
Sweeping
From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.
MS Dhoni
Army
Young
Books
Weapons
Combat
Read
Boy
Tanks
Interested
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian
Before
Books
Returned
Continually
Were
Left
Beijing
Banned
I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.
Madelaine Petsch
Love
Good
Book
Girl
Reading
Club
Books
Out
Like
Hanging
Good Book
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar
Family
Me
Class
Reading
Thanks
Books
Class Family
Vocabulary
Fact
Habit
Reader
Always
Came
Very
Middle
In Fact
Middle Class
Poor
Avid
Grounded
English
Keeps
It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.
Mae Whitman
Funny
Personality
World
Lost
Else
Addictive
Books
Way
Right Way
TV
Except
Like
Because
Enamored
Very
Get
Hits
Any
Just
Stories
Anything
Anything Else
Movies
Really
Right
Things
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
Maeve Binchy
People
Own
Books
Kind
Charge
Take
Lives
Bring
I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
Maeve Binchy
Buy
People
Seen
Fall
Books
Soon
Lot
Afterwards
Plane
Then
Asleep
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
Maeve Binchy
Time
Daily
You
Long
Sit
Books
Paper
Say
Brood
About
Fact
No Time
Write
Had
Learn
Very
Quickly
Going
Influence
Biggest
Biggest Influence
Newspaper
Worked
You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
Maeve Binchy
You
Yourself
People
Hero
Own
Think
Everybody
Dramatic
Books
Say
Find
Could
Countries
Know
Look
Person
Same
Just
Where
Story
Anywhere
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
Maggie Stiefvater
Work
First
Picture
Books
Mood
Out
Stuck
Idea
New
First Thing
New Idea
Hit
Get
The First Thing
Pacing
Theaters
Movies
Work Out
Working
Thing
I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
Mahershala Ali
Books
Comic
Comic Books
Up
Really
Growing
Growing Up
The tragedy of India is that the Mahatma, who has numerous streets named after him and has had his statues put up everywhere, who's there in our school books and on our currency, who is used by everyone to hardsell his political ideology, is not emulated in India.
Mahesh Bhatt
School
Political
Ideology
Numerous
Everyone
Our
Books
Everywhere
Statues
India
Had
Put
Named
Him
His
Political Ideology
Tragedy
Up
Currency
After
Used
Who
Streets
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
Maj Sjowall
Time
Good
World
Crime
Reading
Spend
Books
Bad
Like
Time Reading
Want
Many
Novels
There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.
Makoto Shinkai
Work
Love
Best
Great
Believe
Think
Books
Those
Would
About
Anime
Like
Read
Because
How
Manga
Form
Them
Really
Novels
Loads
Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
Mal Peet
Privacy
Bench
Books
Intimate
Both
Fact
Generally
Shared
Beyond
Sitting
Common
Spaces
Forms
Public
Things
Widely
What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
Mal Peet
Love
Language
Value
Rich
Books
Delighted
Fireworks
Baffled
Merely
Know
Surprised
Want
Means
Page
I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
Malala Yousafzai
Teacher
Me
Library
School
Enjoy
Ellis
Books
Head
Beyond
Look
Go
Discovered
Encouraged
Curriculum
After
Might
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
Malcolm Gladwell
Time
People
Books
Fine
Contradictions
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
Malcolm Gladwell
You
Books
Read
Reader
Audience
Them
Then
Appear
All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell
Books
Optimistic
We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
Malorie Blackman
Time
Home
Reading
Few
Complete
Books
Point
Had
Non-Fiction
Because
Opinion
Real
Fiction
Dad
Waste
Waste Of Time
Utter
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