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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999) -
I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
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I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.
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I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
The Kite Runner -
I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write.
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I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
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I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
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I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
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I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
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