"The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything."
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"A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous."
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"I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people."
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"A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one."
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"The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole."
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"I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike."
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"It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book."
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"There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate."
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"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old."
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"By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark."
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"Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom."
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"I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books."
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"I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book."
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"No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book."
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"To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all."
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"People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those."
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"Viola Davis keeps saying this movie should be called The Big Responsibility instead of The Help, because there were so many groups of people that you wanna do right by. You want to do right by Southerners and the African-American community and the readers of the book and the people that grew up with domestics and the people who worked as domestics. There's a million different groups that you're trying to please and satisfy that you're worried about not loving what comes across onscreen."
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"It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book."
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"For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound."
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"I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people."
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