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You know, I don't only play for the record books.
Roger Federer

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
Shawn Ashmore

Mother, Used, Brother

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
Evan Dando

Everything, Down, Through

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Christopher Hampton

Successful, Bad, Films

'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
Maggie Stiefvater

Black, Read, Club

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
Maggie Stiefvater

Time, Movies, Wife

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
Maggie Stiefvater

Work, Movies, Working

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
Greg Ginn

History, Read, Punk

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.
Emanuel Celler

Music, Food, Different

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
Rebecca Hall

Book, Everything, Through

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
Jack Vance

Alone, Same, Read

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Jack Vance

Young, Read, Influence

Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.
Elliott Erwitt

Work, Best, Book

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.
Rob Walton

Sports, Old, Year

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Russell Banks

Tell, Themselves, Worth

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne

Love, Music, Morning

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
Anne McCaffrey

Read, Happens, Comfort

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.
Anne McCaffrey

Another, Often, Mood

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
Rick Moody

Funny, True, Human

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
Rick Moody

Year, Reading, Judged

I love comic books and always did as a kid.
Rick Moody

Love, Kid, Comic

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.
Margaret Mahy

Yourself, Writing, Wide

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
Margaret Mahy

Time, Mind, Book

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
Margaret Mahy

Music, Help, Young

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.
Margaret Mahy

Good, Book, Sense

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.
Anatoly Chubais

Life, Stupid, Nothing

Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour

Travel, Teaches

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
Nina Bawden

Strength, Children, Writing

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.
Nina Bawden

Life, Time, Children

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
Nina Bawden

Hope, Children, Help

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