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If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then the reader shifts his loyalties. Ravi Subramanian

Reading Books Supply Particular Likes Reader His Shifts Up Author Then Loyalties Keep Kept

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate. Ravi Subramanian

Try Parents Giving Own Other Filters Appropriate Books Kids High Classics Select Take Simply Know Read End Up Very Times Get Children Them Choices

Books marketing has moved from the review culture to a preview culture. Ravi Subramanian

Culture Books Marketing Preview Review Moved

I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Ravi Subramanian

Saying People Extraordinary Books Superheroes Situations Ordinary Ordinary People Ordinary Situations Keep

Thousands of books are published every year in India, and it's becoming more difficult to stand out and get people to buy the books. The only way to get people notice the book is to create a buzz much before it's released. Ravi Subramanian

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough. I have consciously rectified that in my next four books. In any case, it's true that women run the world, and men would do better to listen to them! Ravi Subramanian

Me Women Book World Strong Better Men First Enough Back Books Tell Characters Run Would Case Had True Readers Female Female Characters Came Were Any Listen After Them Created Next Many Four

Books should be both enlightening and entertaining. Ravi Subramanian

Books Entertaining Both Should Enlightening

Electronic books are junk. Ray Bradbury

Books Junk Electronic

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books. Raymond E. Feist

Character Book Nothing Books Characters Runs Risk Write Writer Wrong Feel Comic Comic Book Comic Books Precious Them Turning Treats

I don't really read books. Wish I did. Rebecca Ferguson

Wish Books Read Did Really

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary. Rebecca Hall

Book Remember Everything Books Nerdy Classic About Through Contemporary Read Sort Always Got Go Get Anything Afterwards Them Really

I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending. Rebecca Makkai

You Class Happy Waiting Book Ending Will Difficult Too Cried Books Once One Book Though Embarrassed Tell Admit Only Part Aloud Crying Read Terribly Because Were Intellectual Very Where Which Happy Ending Gandhi Elementary Biography

Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane O'Connor and Jon Scieszka. Rebecca Serle

Writing Word Picture Important Books Unbelievably Count Jon Vein Picture Books Like Authors Jane While Skillful Certainly Less

I am a young adult author, and so are quite a few of my friends. We all write books for the same demographic; many of us are even published by the same publishing house. Two of us, in fact, share the same editor. Rebecca Serle

Few Young Books Fact Write Adult Share House Demographic Editor Am Friends Author Same Quite Young Adult In Fact Us Many Even Published Publishing Publishing House Two

I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because, um, the classics hold up so well. Rebecca Serle

Picture Complaint Books Classics New Picture Books Well Read Because Um Up Get Often Hold Lament Ridiculous

I get asked a lot what books I recommend for a nursery, home library, etc., and I always tell parents to start with what they loved as children, what they want to share, and broaden out from there. Rebecca Serle

Home Library Parents Nursery Books Broaden Out Tell Recommend Share Always Lot Get Children Want Loved Etc Asked Start

The best way to get me to write more books is to read the ones that exist! Rebecca Serle

Best Me Books Way Best Way More Write Read Exist Get

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books. Rebecca Stead

Books Read Course Still Lot Child Children Whole

There's this trouble with books for me because I'm terrible at thinking of titles. The truth is, even with the titles that I've landed on in the end, they always feel wrong. I think it's because of this whole problem of having to package your book in a certain way. Rebecca Stead

Truth Me Truth Is Book Problem Trouble Think Thinking Books Way Having Wrong Feel Terrible Because Always End In The End Package Titles Landed Certain Your Certain Way Whole Even

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect. Rebecca Stead

I write books to find out about things. Rebecca West

Books Out Find About Write Things

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable. Regina Brett

Best Myself Family Me Cancer Care Doctors Advice Before Down Books Would Take Take Care Remind Wrote Chemotherapy Friends Survivors Owner Created Manual Help Started Treatments

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. Regina Brett

You Reality Book Sometimes Ending Father Will Too Enough Books Hid About Part Soon Come Tales Also Read Fairy Fairy Tales Up Just Censor Rabbit Grim Grandkids Skip Peter

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be. Reid Hoffman

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