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The more you read, the better you get at it.
James Patterson
You
Better
More
Read
Get
If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.
James Purefoy
You
Absolutely
Tales
Read
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Terrifying
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
James Salter
You
Will
Books
Approximation
Only
Never
Written
Like
Know
Learn
Read
Get
Going
Really
Languages
Chance
If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You'll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you're really writing.
James Salter
You
Book
Writing
School
Lost
Own
Else
Everything
Visualize
About
Someone
Classroom
Crowd
Student
He
Bewildered
Know
Read
Always
Experiences
Translate
Really
Your
Large
Describing
University
It's possible of course, especially when you're young, to read a book and take it to your heart. And you don't need to speak to anybody about it - it's so important to you: You have found it.
James Salter
You
Heart
Book
Speak
Important
Young
Possible
About
Take
Read
Course
Anybody
Your
Found
Need
You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
James St. James
You
Writing
Think
Say
Able
Computer
Computer Screen
Never
Know
Read
Private
Going
Just
Screen
Anyone
Ever
Things
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor
Music
Guitar
Starts
Something
Write
Until
Read
Around
Itself
Wander
Present
Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?
James Taylor
Myself
Me
Tell
Photographers
Like
Know
Mostly
Read
How
Reporters
Want
After
Them
Really
I don't read music. I don't write or read music.
James Taylor
Music
Write
Read
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
James Wolcott
Papers
Like
Read
Norman
Norman Mailer
Essays
Packed
Sandwich
Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
James Wolk
You
Television
Given
Scene
Read
Amazed
Get
Often
Script
What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
Jami Attenberg
Myself
Day
Morning
Me
Cafe
Phone
Try
Will
Rest
Sit
Think
Honestly
Able
Facing
Clear
Head
Hour
House
Read
Because
Leave
Go
Hear
Very
Just
Screen
Screens
Notebook
Hard
No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.
Jami Attenberg
You
Matter
Never
Never Forget
Like
Read
Boy
How
Feminist
Forget
Many
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
Jamie Dimon
You
Lobbying
Way
Constantly
Look
Read
Officials
Banks
Inappropriate
Elected
Elected Officials
I read a lot about serial killers.
Jamie Dornan
About
Read
Lot
Serial
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
Jamie Dornan
Something
Troubles
Never
Over
Involve
Read
Flag
Senseless
Anything
Belfast
Set
I start the day off with a pot of coffee, and I read all the newspapers online, then I delve around for new music.
Jamie Hince
Music
Day
Coffee
Pot
Online
New
Read
Around
New Music
Off
Newspapers
Then
Start
Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.
Jamie Wyeth
Paradise
Reading
Lost
Seven
Bit
Dante
Most
Read
Deadly
Sins
Did
Going
Then
Working
Hard
Paintings
Series
Based
Milton
I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
Jamila Woods
Song
Mind
College
Solomon
Blew
Read
Just
Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
Jan Karon
Good
News
You
People
Will
Good People
Say
Papers
Out
TV
TV News
Could
Read
Convinced
Cynics
Watch
The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.
Jan Mark
Game
Sometimes
Will
Lost
Nothing
Else
Some
About
Glamour
Football
Beauties
Read
May
Romance
Children
Realism
Us
Many
I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.
Jane Birkin
Good
Think
Local
Everything
Books
Relevant
About
Studied
Read
Always
Authors
Egypt
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
Jane Campion
You
Tough
Poems
Read
Anxieties
Quite
Often
Doubts
Full
Keats
I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life: 'The Catcher in the Rye.'
Jane Fallon
Life
Writing
Books
Only
Never
He
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Read
His
Very
Different
Anyway
Show
Ricky
Novel
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.
Jane Gardam
Me
Be Happy
Happy
Writing
Mother
Before
Live
Way
Seemed
Only
Potter
Could
Write
Soon
Read
Bedtime
Child
Sensible
Even
Started
I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.
Jane Green
War
Me
Book
Job
First
Thinking
Back
Say
Would
Feature
Week
Write
Writer
Had
Come
Most
Read
Bidding
Within
Led
Off
Left
Loved
Which
Sent
Newspaper
Then
Agents
Novels
Reject
Number
Two
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