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Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.

Love Blue Teen World Book Sword

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

Children Book Now Say Old Anything

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

Book Energy You Desire Write Brains

Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

Friendship Music Loneliness Book Way

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

Funny Character Book Possibilities

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

I Am Book Copy My Own Own Dedicated

I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change.

Change World Book Doing Person Deal

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

Job Writing Book Years Content

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Book Kid Always Everything Been

I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.

Alone Time Book Enjoy Open

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

Mother Home Me Sister Book Library

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Monica Lewinsky

History Book Right Made He Could

Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.

Best Sun Book Story Short Rejection

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

Beginning People Book End Generation

I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the Avengers, I would go with Thor. I would have to. I just think I look the part too much, and I'm a fan of all of them, but Thor would be something that I think I could put on. I think I could make it happen.

Love Make It Happen Book Think Look

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

Book Pride Year Say Personal Way

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

Jennifer Gilmore

Book Strong Slow Feel You Sometimes

I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Me World Book Thought You I Can

I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.

War Book Story Horse Big Well

There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.

Michael Eric Dyson

Relationship Alone Great Effort Book

A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror.

Paul G. Tremblay

Love Writing Book Story Criticism

I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.

Good Poetry College Me Sweet Book

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

Me Book Someone Copy Ask Hard

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

Cassandra Clare

Me Book Mindset Need Get Different

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