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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.
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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 the Joker of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack and if you like things that come in pairs, check out my fabulous Croupiers.
Play Your Cards Right When introducing his two Dolly Dealers on the newe -
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 been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, ''Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.''
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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