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Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Book Book Club Club Computer
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I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
Babies Beef Books Want
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Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

Two Must Have For
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Book Read Real One
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Body Book Cold Ever
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Again Book Editing Few
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

Any Beyond Book Business
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Books Closed Follow Novel
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Am Appreciated Because Books
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Never index your own book.
Book Never Own Your
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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

About Asked Book Main
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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Books Folly Looks Me
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

About Book Comfortable Days
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

Books Don Everything Five
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When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

Ask Books Couple Done
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

About Afraid Because Book
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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Against Art Be True Bible
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

About Army Book Church
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

About Books Keep New
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Actual Avoided Books Electronic
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Books Me Success Surprise
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Actually Boo Got Many
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Asked Bookstore Defeat Me
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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Book Computer Difficult Read
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

Book Free Publishers Sales
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I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

About Book Bought Couple
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The book you don't read won't help.
Book Help Read You
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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Book Meal Miss You
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
About Any Begin Books
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Heart Drives Characters Passionate
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

Books Enjoy Learnt Like
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
About Book I Can Point
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Books True Both Large
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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
Lead Best Come Books
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Ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.

Books Few Friends Garden
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Board Honor Pride Decency
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ideas Book Essence Great
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Mind Admirable Good Book
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