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I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something. Paul Morrissey

Believe Think Books Say Something Absurd Like Look Movies Should Paintings Serious

It's been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don't necessarily match my outsides... People try to strike up a conversation with me about Dungeons & Dragons or comic books, and I'm like, 'I can't. I'm sorry.' Paul Rust

My favorite film is 'The Empire Strikes Back.' My writing, and my personal taste in movies and books, tends toward works with a darker tone, and 'Empire' fits that the best of all the movies. Paul S. Kemp

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The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion. Paul Singer

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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. Paul Theroux

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People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. Paul Theroux

People Books Threatened Read Lot Who

I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader. Paul Theroux

You Travel People Sense Think Books Would Trip Writer Take Never Never Take Read Reader Because Doing Intend Either

I was the first generation of filmmakers where videogames were a serious part of my life. I regard them as just as valid as books or plays in terms of an intellectual property. Paul W. S. Anderson

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell. Paula Danziger

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to. Paula Danziger

Sad Funny People Books Respond

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books. Paula Danziger

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The first Amy Silver book was commissioned, and they were not books that came completely from me. They weren't necessarily the sort of books I read, and although I enjoyed doing them very much, and they were great training, I never felt completely comfortable in that genre. Paula Hawkins

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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books. Paulo Coelho

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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge. Paulo Coelho

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I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal. Paulo Coelho

People Reading Too Books Feel How Personal After Explain

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books. Penn Jillette

Dark Bathtub Books Out Lights Like Read Go Turn

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books. Penn Jillette

Reading Everyone Books Like Read Different Want Anything Us

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived. Per Petterson

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I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. Per Petterson

Books Bookstore Worked Oslo

There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that. Pete Hamill

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Pete Seeger

Will Books Neither Songs Planet Save Speeches

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books. Pete Wentz

Books Well Read Devoured Just Younger

I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth. Peter Abrahams

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I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me. Peter Abrahams

One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964. Peter Coyote

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