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TAO LIN
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I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. LOUISE BROWN
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ... BUCHI EMECHETA
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only r... GRAYDON CARTER
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote... GAIL CARSON LEVINE
I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I ... ALBERT BROOKS I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
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I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin... AKHIL SHARMA My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've...
JESS WALTER
I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem. DAN WAKEFIELD
My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who... ED EMBERLEY
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The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. ... DAVID DASTMALCHIAN
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if ... NATALIE BABBITT Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin...
ROGER PENROSE I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I...
JAMES ROLLINS
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I ... HARLAN COBEN I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book a...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... GORE VIDAL I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody...
STETSON KENNEDY I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writin...
ROBERT KLEIN
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no id... CYNTHIA VOIGT
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NICK FLYNN
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I migh... ERIK LARSON I actually wrote it down when Jamie said that. I'm going to use it in my book someday ? if I ever wr...
STEVE MALCHOW
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ... BUCHI EMECHETA The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn&...
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In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to c... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ad... KATE KLISE
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... BOBBY ORR
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of '... BILLY GRAHAM I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work ...
JESMYN WARD
'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, so... LIBBA BRAY I know who you are. You wrote a book about my dad.
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ISHMAEL BEAH
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo... JACKIE COLLINS
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One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca... BILLY CRYSTAL
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i... TOM PETERS The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the ...
MARY MACLANE
My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into be... DEBI MAZAR
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I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of... DREW GILPIN FAUST I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
DYLAN O'BRIEN All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I ...
SANELA RAMIC JURICH
When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters. ANNALEE NEWITZ In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book r...
LAURA MOSER
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I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based ... RAY BRADBURY
I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho... JAMES FREY I don't discriminate against sushi. It's all good in my book.
BILLY HORSCHEL I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'
DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike'...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn'...
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PATRICK DEWITT
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Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the lo... ANAïS NIN All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme boo...
B.O.B
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo... GARTH NIX I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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Every savage can dance. 
I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#... 
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. 
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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di... 
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i... 
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. 
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You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. 
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Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag... 
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying... 
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The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t... 
A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. 
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ... 
I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that. 
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a... 
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori... 
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ... 
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh... 
Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ... 
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. 
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th... 
Men are creatures with eight hands. 
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. 
When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom... 
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ... 
Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the... 
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ... 
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I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of... 