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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
Norman MacCaig
Me
You
Met
Affection
Side
Books
Those
Poetry
Never
Prose
Most
Course
Fishing
Get
Authors
Behind
Whom
Enjoyed
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
Norman MacCaig
Otherwise
Books
Out
Only
Throw
Like
Very
Them
Much
Keep
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Norton Juster
Good
Books
Distinction
Bad
Period
I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd rather go to the set and work.
Noureen DeWulf
Work
Day
Pressure
Three
Books
Rather
Put
Auditions
Go
Lot
Agent
Working
Keep
Set
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
O. R. Melling
Day
Books
Several
Though
Read
Non-Fiction
Always
Go
Tastes
Fiction
Novel
Two
I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
Olga Kurylenko
Spiritual
Me
Thoughts
You
World
Books
See
About
Like
How
While
Travelling
Bring
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk
Happiness
Happy
Humanity
World
Other
Everyone
Books
Focused
Writer
Read
Because
Reads
Am
Istanbul
End
Same
Any
In The End
Your
Languages
Whole
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
Orhan Pamuk
Good
Me
Walk
Sentiment
Hesitate
Books
Alive
Out
Bad
Give
Give Me
House
Joys
Also
Coming
Just
Stop
Being
Movie
Depress
Notice
Pages
Novels
Film
I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.
Orianthi
Books
Self-Help
Really
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
Orlando Bloom
Mom
Me
You
Books
Tell
Read
Motorbike
Get
Used
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
Oscar Hijuelos
People
World
Enjoy
Books
Way
Kids
Onward
Than
Different
Fifties
Forties
Whole
Different Way
Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings.
Owen King
Art
Me
Films
Books
Say
Pretty
Seem
More
Like
Comic
Comic Books
Comics
Lot
Art Forms
Close
Than
Common
Forms
Two
Sibling
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
P. C. Cast
You
Book
Wait
Teenagers
Market
Books
Out
Years
Years And Years
Lot
Quickly
Get
Going
Next
Series
Need
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
P. L. Travers
Myth
Monkey
Chaos
Books
Favorite
He
Because
Hindu
Lord
Friend
Loved
Wherever
Which
Much
Created
Really
Who
Based
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
Paloma Faith
Time
Go Away
Few
Books
Take
Like
Read
Go
Normally
Away
I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.
Pankaj Tripathi
Ideology
Believe
Books
Tend
Read
Lot
Certain
I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Great
Fear
Focus
Young
Great American
Books
Backed
Sexual
More
Somewhat
Write
Adult
Category
Ya
Course
Off
American
Young Adult
Anything
Pacing
Little
The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Writing
Books
Liked
Conclusion
Still
Came
Sell
Process
Even
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Writing
World
Fans
Girl
Sense
Books
Those
Out
Would
Would-Be
Unpublished
Having
Writer
Simultaneously
Audience
Go
Ship
Stories
Breaker
Really
Successful
Full
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
Pat Brown
Good
Books
Prolific
Simply
Make
Because
Go
Stories
Unheard
Less
Many
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
Patricia Cornwell
Writing
Books
Kid
Would
Always
Stories
Little
Create
Little Kid
Illustrating
Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
Patricia Heaton
Love
Travel
Husband
Before
Other
Our
Books
Our Lives
Kids
Having
Both
Had
Were
Lot
Theater
Really
Working
Fun
Each
Traveling
Lives
Enjoying
I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
Patricia Highsmith
Saying
Good
Gay
Strong
Wife
Sex
Men
Think
Appreciates
Other
Good Looks
Books
Later
Married
He
True
Looks
Makes
Bed
His
Very
Department
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
Patricia MacLachlan
Family
Nurturing
Looking
Looking Back
Back
Books
See
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
About
Write
Makes
Up
Sisters
Works
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
Patricia Polacco
Family
Writing
Old
Incredible
Books
Until
Came
Years
Children
Storytellers
Start
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
Patricia Reilly Giff
Thoughts
People
Writing
Own
Awareness
Other
Books
Paper
Finding
See
Write
Like
Make
Talking
Discover
Provide
Up
Children
Want
Stories
Them
Themselves
Connection
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