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Josh Prince Musician
Book

"I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids fall in love with language and what you can do with it and how it sounds in your range. It sort of has a musicality but on the other hand they get the story and the ideas and the context of it. I think it's a way to get kids into it and I also think that when kids are around people who love books it rubs off on them."

Book Kids Falling In Love
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one."

Writing Book Order
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole."

Book Challenges Finals
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express."

Writing Book Character
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial."

Book New York Reviews
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating."

Book Reading Listening
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life."

Book Reading Grandma
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six."

Book School Reading
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired."

Book Eight Months
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about."

Book Ideas Looks
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Book

"Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies."

Giving Book Blessing
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
Book

"The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!"

Book Soul Medicine
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
Book

"I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads."

Mean Children Book
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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
Book

"The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them."

Book Needs Cooking
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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright
Book

"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"

Book Might Captains
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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
Book

"I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right."

Book Recipes Adequate
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Julia Stone Musician, Singer
Book

"I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of nowhere, like out of a dream or an image that I've seen in a book, or even the title of a book that I'm staring at on a shelf. It's a good way to write songs, just stare at a bookshelf!"

Book Dream Song
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