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Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.


Chetan Bhagat
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I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.
Drew Carey
Tags: Just Get Them
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I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.


Mohsin Hamid
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President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.
Conan O'Brien
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
Kacey Musgraves
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I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
Lauren Willig
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian Mcewan
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When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
Warren Ellis
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R. A. Salvatore
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
Jim Woodring
Tags: Get Stuff Book
Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
G. Willow Wilson
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Hanoi Hannah
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I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.
Anne Fadiman
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
Hanneli Mustaparta
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It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.
Graeme Base
When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.
Linda Sanchez
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.
Nicole Krauss
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I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
Jodi Picoult
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
Leon Uris
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