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Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers. John Boyne
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Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction. Emma McLaughlin
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I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else. Geraldine McCaughrean
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act. George MacDonald Fraser
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I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing. Teresa Medeiros
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When a group of ultra-opinionated, uber-creative romance authors get together, I'm sure you guys can imagine how fast the ideas start flying!
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There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever. Amity Shlaes
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I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time. Amish Tripathi
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Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.
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Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed. Daniel Suarez
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'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.' Paul Weller
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I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
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I think authors like me are always struggling with the idea that they should have a brand and a Facebook author page and they should get Twitter accounts. I don't know what to do with them. Lynn Coady
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One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet a lot of great children's and YA authors at events all over the country. So I figured it might be fun to interview some of them and turn the interviews into short online comics. Steve Sheinkin
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Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
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We want to use television in a way that will provide a different understanding of the value of books and authors and hopefully ignite general interest in reading more.
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The reason we filed in the lawsuit in the simplest terms possible is to prevent the authors from promoting themselves and profiting from illegal conduct.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists. Gary Hamel
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I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies. Jane Birkin
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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
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We think this is a win, win, win for publishers, authors and customers. Jeff Bezos
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With book publishing, when I say Fulcrum, you might know that we publish books, but you would be hard-pressed to pick titles or authors from our list. It's tricky from the marketing side to think about building a brand, and we do so by picking authors and titles that we believe will be successful.
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Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy! Isabel Allende
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In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow. Ron Kind
authors failed modern production
Most modern authors failed to distinguish between two very different phenomena: the production of a new taxon, and the production of a new phenotype. Ernst Mayr
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Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers. Stephanie Laurens
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Merck and the authors did everything in a proper scientific manner.
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I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can. Paul Kane
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We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but (book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice) and (director) Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater. Bob Gaudio
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The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. Robert Green Ingersoll