Jon Katz
Related HARLAN COBEN ANNALEE NEWITZ Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was t... LARRY HAGMAN I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'... ERIC BROWN Since I've had kids I haven't read a huge lot of classics. I've been too busy. It now takes me about... GARY SINISE MATTHEW QUICK M. STANTON EVANS PAULO COELHO Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin... ROGER PENROSE RICHARD WRIGHT I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody... STETSON KENNEDY Realize that almost anybody can write a book, ... I even wrote a book. DAVID FARBER But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote ... PATTY HEARST In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these othe... EVELYN LAU DAVID FRIEDMAN ACE FREHLEY ALICE WALKER IAN FLEMING I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. RALPH STEADMAN I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows ... MANIKA I know who you are. You wrote a book about my dad. BRETT HULL I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. KATE ADIE STEPHEN KING TOM PETERS I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles. GREG LOUGANIS I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it. BENJAMIN PERCY I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings. MIKE GALLAGHER I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ... AL YANKOVIC The media also wrote a lot of incorrect facts about me. This did not help me either. The media kept ... SALMAN KHAN BILL MAHER PATRICIA CORNWELL This book is a lot about the New England of today. BURT FEINTUCH He's the best player I never coached. If I'd had him, I could have been writing a book about rebound... BILL KRUEGER DOUGLAS BRUNT A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing ... SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER I wanted to be part of a business that was secure and had the potential for future growth. Getting a... JODI NEWFIELD I do a lot of writing about my family. KATEY SAGAL COREY TAYLOR RICHIE SAMBORA I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness, DAR WILLIAMS I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a mag... DON NOVELLO HILAIRE BELLOC DEYTH BANGER There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's so... JOE HALDEMAN DAVID SEDARIS LANA DEL REY In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I... JANE YOLEN At the time I began writing the book about Northampton, I had recently been in Haiti to do a story f... TRACY KIDDER MARKUS ZUSAK In advertising, you have to do a lot of rewriting. But I didn't mind with my book because it's more ... GENE HUNT CAITLIN MORAN Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral th... RICK YANCEY I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, a... CHARLES MCCARRY I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample. JANICE DICKINSON KHALED HOSSEINI It's a very personal book for me. The book says a lot about my life. ... Sometimes the subjects just... CLAUDIA EMERSON ACE FREHLEY SALMAN RUSHDIE JANE SMILEY BETH REVIS ROBERT DARNTON PAULA HAWKINS RICHARD RUSSO I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War... CELINE BUCKENS LOIS LOWRY Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book!... EDAN LEPUCKI BILLY COLLINS I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me... LAURA HILLENBRAND PAULO COELHO ED EMBERLEY AVI I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. TASLIMA NASRIN You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I prac... MARY ROACH MARY BALOGH When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef... GARY JENNINGS I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I ha... EVAN HUNTER MICHAEL DIRDA KATE KLISE I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlai... DOUGLAS FEITH O. J. SIMPSON All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I ... SANELA RAMIC JURICH The president is being very aggressive in talking about the economy. He talks about it a lot more th... CLAIRE BUCHAN I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them. APRIL BOWLBY ANA CASTILLO A lot of them were quite depressing and didn't have a sense of humor. And, none of them told the sto... JENNIFER OWENSBY CATHERINE DENEUVE VANILLA ICE My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone... LALAINE I learned a whole lot. I could almost write a book. MIKE WILLIAMS I thought a lot about my attitude toward the world, toward fear and violence, and that I had somethi... ROBERT STONE I found that it was hard to find a publisher for a book about a now-defunct dairy company. BRIAN BUTKO 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 GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I think he's had the respect. A lot of guys talk about him. The media might not talk about him that ... AARON GLENN CAROL LEIFER JACK CANFIELD RIVERS CUOMO BERNARD CORNWELL A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that... SALLY SCHNEIDER UNKNOWN
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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. 
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness 
The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?