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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
Walter Jon Williams
Work
Technology
Reading
Favor
Price
Makes
Any
Public
Available
Reasonable
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
Walter Kirn
Great
Woman
Women
Gorgeous
Seen
Reading
Sexy
London
Seeing
Only
Had
Beauties
Misses
Know
Attractive
She
Without
Got
Were
Years
Truly
Julie
Lot
Impression
Taste
Just
Whether
Literature
English
English Literature
Near
Two
British
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn
Alone
Writing
Word
Reading
Speed
Books
Out
About
Putting
Saddest
Involved
Frenzy
How
Shelves
Quickly
Getting
Moves
Ages
Publishing
Things
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
Warren Ellis
You
Gun
Reading
Research
Machine
Ways
Immediately
Kind
Guns
Some
About
Write
Culmination
Doing
Years
America
Any
Just
Fiction
Start
I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.
Whit Stillman
You
Book
Will
Reading
Before
Ruin
Critics
See
Oblige
Troubled
Almost
Read
Editors
Very
Certainly
Novel
Film
Right
What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible than reading your alternative weekly from ten years ago. People really aspired to write clearly.
Whit Stillman
People
Reading
Find
Ten
More
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Weekly
Remarkable
Write
Clearly
Read
Alternative
Accessible
Years
Years Ago
Than
Literature
Century
Much
Really
Your
Aspired
I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy; reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.
Wilbur Smith
Great
Me
Women
Experience
Men
Men And Women
Blessed
Reading
Own
Living
Spent
Ways
Those
Born
About
Entirely
My Own
Write
Almost
Since
House
Talking
Been
Infancy
Africa
Stories
Loving
Land
Who
Researching
Many
Lives
Treasure
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Wilfred Owen
History
Reading
Fighting
Soldiers
East
See
Almost
Years
Mania
After
Then
Serve
Playing
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Wilfred Owen
Reading
Thinking
Only
Poetical
Generality
Scientific
Am
Off
Any
Satisfaction
Rounds
Conscious
Vagueness
I wrote a novel about an economic/environmental collapse titled 'Soft Apocalypse,' and that's definitely the sort I'm best prepared for. To write the novel, I did a lot of reading on what we might expect, so at the first sign, I'm ready to convert all of my assets to gold and ammo and stock up on freeze-dried food.
Will McIntosh
Best
Food
First
Reading
Collapse
Definitely
Sign
About
Write
Wrote
Sort
Ready
Lot
Up
Stock
Expect
Did
Gold
Convert
Might
Apocalypse
Novel
Prepared
Assets
Soft
I feel like there's a dangerous culture among young actors of going to posey joints and socialising - not doing hard work. I don't want to go and hang out in Soho House L.A. That's literally my worst nightmare. I'd rather be at home reading scripts.
Will Poulter
Work
Hard Work
Home
Culture
Dangerous
Reading
Young
Worst
Out
Rather
Joints
Feel
Like
House
Doing
Go
Hang
Going
Young Actors
Want
Literally
Scripts
Hard
Actor
Among
Nightmare
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.
Willa Holland
You
Eyes
Book
Girl
Reading
Adapting
Teenage
Teenage Girls
About
Something
Knowing
Tiger
Without
Judy
Been
Up
Wanted
Really
Grow
Grow Up
Assigned
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
William E. Geist
Men
Seen
Reading
Posted
Menu
Outside
Been
After
Fleeing
Grown
Grown Men
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
William Ernest Henley
World
Worth
Made
Reading
Sense
Everybody
Hundred
Worth Reading
Born
Poets
Remembering
True
Like
Friend
Essayist
Literary
Confronted
Your
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis
Work
Reading
Nothing
Distressing
More
Writer
Audience
His
Than
Front
Tiresome
Standing
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
William Godwin
Education
Reading
Thinking
Pupil
Object
Rather
Various
Lead
Mere
True
New
Render
Him
His
Than
Trains
Should
Copy
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
William Kircher
Reading
Everyone
Invented
He
Genre
Fantasy
Whole
Tolkien
Medieval
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
William Mapother
Science
Reading
Bit
Geek
About
More
Tend
Neuroscience
Towards
Brain
My advice to many ICOs is to start reading about startups and focus on the product, customer, and market as soon as the sale is over. And don't get distracted by post-ICO euphoria and the price of ETH or BTC.
William Mougayar
Focus
Advice
Reading
Startups
Market
Distracted
About
Price
Soon
Over
Sale
Get
Customer
Product
Euphoria
Many
Start
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn
Natural
Oppression
World
Mind
Reading
Scholars
Candle
Senseless
Which
Much
Reason
Many
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
William Styron
Best
Loneliness
Reading
State
Bay
Absolute
Keep
My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.
Willie Geist
History
Book
Will
Daughter
Reading
Out
Someday
About
Joking
Him
Am
History Book
Pat
Hanging
Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.
Willie McCovey
Great
Me
Great Things
Reading
Else
Those
About
Someone
Almost
Like
Read
Another
Person
Even
Things
Career
In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.
Wladimir Klitschko
People
Black
Country
Reading
Ocean
Closed
Out
Border
See
Had
Excited
Stuff
Robinson
Because
Been
Times
Get
Soviet
Soviet Union
Wanted
Boats
Union
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Yann Martel
Book
Brilliant
Reading
Club
Think
Book Club
Meeting
Books
Something
Writer
Idea
Reader
Making
Center
Social
Speaking
Event
As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a little more naturally for me.
Yung Lean
Music
Dreams
Me
Book
Reading
Starts
More
Exciting
Soon
Brain
Get
Little
Working
Naturally
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