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For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Affirmation Alice Audrey Authors Books Censored Could Experiences Lord Me Read Source Terms Thing Walker Watch Weird Weird Thing Were Where Who Wrote

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I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

~Dick Bruna

Topics: Amazing Authors Cover Get Make Make Up Manuscript Thought Try Up Work

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I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

~Duncan Jones

Topics: Authors Just Know Like Love One Thing Say Take Thing Tweak Were What If Who World I Love

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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Authors Bible Could Evolution God Had Important Made Missed Most Provision Really Revelation The Most Important Theology Thoughts Were

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The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.

~Ed Royce

Topics: Appear Appropriate Authors Bank Business Congress Fund However Implementation Last Lending More Name Named Out Since Small Small Business Would

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Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.

~Edan Lepucki

Topics: Amazon Authors Big Books Connection Editors Feel Get Go Helped House Lot Out Player Publishing Tend Them Way Who

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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

~Edmund White

Topics: Authors Celebrities Comment Different Everything France Public Role Shows States Talk Talk Shows Very Want Writers

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There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

~Edward Everett

Topics: Authors Before Congress Ferocious Frenzy Influence Last Made Outbreak Real Rebellion Session Show Speeches Very Were

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Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Authors Down Figure Go Like New Projects Reading Research Sometimes Stage Surprising Writing

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At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

~Edward P. Jones

Topics: Almost Almost All Authors Because Black Black And White Books Born First Got Knew Lot Mostly Mother People Raised Read Remember South Southern Starting Were White I Remember

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