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And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. Rube Goldberg

Books Papers Thousand Cartoons About Also Got Up Six

I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books. Ruby Dee

Love Words Think Enough Books Encourage Authors Deep Deep Love

Instead of a passion for the Yankees or fly-fishing or birding, I want to pass on to my sons a love of books, music, and art. I accept that this is partly about the gratification of my own ego, but it's also one of the only ways I know of making a rich life. That's what we all want for our progeny. Rumaan Alam

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Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one. Rumaan Alam

Burden Other Books Seem Blackness Like Sort Context Issues Any Difference Which Explicitly Creates Engage Serious

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before. Rumaan Alam

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The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that. Rupi Kaur

Writing Become Think Books Way Visiting Dream Would Dreamed Poems Small Small Child Never Child Did Might Disneyland

Films and books have been intertwined as far as my growing up is concerned. Ruskin Bond

Films Intertwined Books Concerned Been Up As Far As Far Growing Growing Up

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film strip running in my head. I guess that is also a reason why my books have such a visual element to them. And it's what I tell young writers: plan your story ahead. Ruskin Bond

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I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read. Ruskin Bond

Memory Remember Books Excellent Read Authors

I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.' Ruskin Bond

Funny Old Books Bailey Like Liked Comic Comic Books Beetle Popeye

Americans like fat books and thin women. Russell Baker

Women Books Like American Thin Fat

All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books. Russell Smith

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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building. Russell Smith

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If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary. Russell Smith

People Books Would Would-Be Dreary Journeys Underground Read Subway

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Death Books States Penalty Most Death Penalty Where Theoretically Union

People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great. Ruth Glick

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Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself. Ruth Glick

Myself Me Rights Publish Savvy Books Written New Like Most Another Were Option Want Unfortunately Held Who Electronic Publishers

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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