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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Am Book Drama Film
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Beauty Body Books Bringing
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Book Dead Perfume People
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Publishes book Appears Public Eye
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Friend Forget Fain Beauty
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Books Found Point Reason
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

Facebook Get Home I Think
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

Nutrition Cream Books Taste
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Always Book Tour Meet
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

Audience Book I Write Perceive
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

Experience Julie Miss Premiere
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A scarcity of books and equipment has rendered our schools into desolate deserts of ignorance.
Scarcity Books Equipment Schools
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The only difference between South Africa and Nigeria is that those who imposed minority rule on the majority rule whether it is by black or white remains minority rule, and must be booted out

South Africa Nigeria Minority Majority
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The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

About Been Better Books
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I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

About Better Book Books
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

About Around Book Comic
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

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I can be a closed book sometimes, but know this – you have my heart.
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Book Conceive Generally Long
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Believe Book Certain CertainThings
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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

Book Dip Out Songs
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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Any Book Case Changed
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Anyone Books Exclude Excluded
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The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Awful Blame Books Find
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If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

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When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

Another Beverly Books Demographic
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If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

Book Gripping Reading Wrong
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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

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I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.
Book Book store Entertain Every
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Ages Books Chief Esteem
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Man Called Friendless God
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The world of books is still the world.
World Books
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Please Nigerian youths… Slaying on the gram is not a career, and it’s doesn’t mean the individual is booked and busy… Biko everybody wears clothes… Quit mediocrity.

Please Staying Gram Career
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Here are some ideas, pick a good book and broaden your knowledge. Also use this period to reflect on ways to better yourself. You can emerge from the lockdown ready to take on the world

Good book Broaden Knowledge Reflect
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
Fanatic Never Really Comic
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