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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

~Doris Lessing

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I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Book Dictates End Every Fiction Form Other Problem Say Science Science Fiction See Solve Start Use Want Write You I See

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Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.

~Dorothea Benton Frank

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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Always Another Became Book Books Given Growing Growing Up Happen Happening Her High High School Horror Kept Me Novels Pregnant Read Romance Saying School She Should Sister Someone Supposed Unmarried Up While Why

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If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Book Desire Else Powerful Prove Something Something Else Strong Successful Write You

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I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.

~Dorothy Atkinson

Topics: About Bedroom Book Comic Drive Every Every Night Gave George Heard Her Joyce Just Knew Loved Mad Me Mum Night People Radio Routines School Shared Sister Version

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I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'

~Dorothy Hodgkin

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Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Being Book Books Drop Find Good Happens Keep Look Matter Place Really Right Size Survive Them Will You Your

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People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Another Book Digital Enough Interesting Just Me Media Own People Right Something Sort Thing Think Thought Want Wanted Worth Written I Think

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When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

~Douglas Adams

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