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books books-and-reading call checked dvds people
People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours. Sharon Chang
book rewritten stones written
The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.
book june third
I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing. George Smith
book object
The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.
book far win
This is a win in our book as far as I am concerned. We keep working hard. It'll come.
book books-and-reading chose continue draws gets interested point suck
That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.
book color imagination
I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book. Brian K. Vaughan
book character views
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way. Carey Mulligan
book reading should
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading C. S. Lewis
writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. Brenda Ueland
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing should performing
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. bell hooks
writing fool boring
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing. Barry White
intelligent way invisible
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way. Bruce Davison
intelligent men genius
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues? Arthur Schopenhauer
intelligent earth planets
Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth! Albert Einstein
intelligent past games
Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task. J. M. Coetzee
intelligent people causes
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. Vladimir Lenin
intelligent cerebral
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. Ursula K. Le Guin
intelligent people ability
The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people. Roberto Orci
intelligent doctors gambling
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. Marcel Proust
intelligent reality men
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. Malcolm X