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I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.
Janet Evanovich
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I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'
Terry Teachout
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I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.
Steve Albini
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I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.
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Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.


James Ellroy
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As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!


Melissa Marr
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For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.


Sara Shepard
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There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.
Ruth Ozeki
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Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
R. L. Stine
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Michael Chabon
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Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.
Trip Adler
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.


Harvey Pekar
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I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.


Dennis Rodman
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A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Christopher Lasch
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell
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As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.


Sharon Creech
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Always be smarter than the people who hire you.


Lena Horne
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.


Russell Simmons
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