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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

~Barbara Delinsky

Topics: Against Ageism Book Entertainment Field Most Needed Obvious Realized Show Tv Tv Show Women

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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

~Barbara Delinsky

Topics: Book Characters Doing Goal Keep Mesmerized Plotting Raise Reader Stakes

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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Am Ambitious Around Book Books Boxes Decorating Donate Element Few Glance Home Interior Just Know Last Over Pack People Prisons Really Serving Sit Take Them Thing Unread Wants I Am

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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: About Book Changed Could Diaper Every Every Man Felt Impelled Like Man Many Other Recent Recent Years Understand Who Why Women Write Years

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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Always Before Book Day Delivering Descend Down Every Every Day Farm Happens However Imagination Lambs Midway Muse Need Sit Sometimes Spark Through Wait Work You

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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Baby Book Bring Effort Every Like Lot Most World

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The first sentence of a book is a promise.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Book First Promise Sentence

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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Author Biography Book Circumstances Events Every Film Follows History Should So-Called Statement Think I Think

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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Book Building Happens Just Kind Know Love Moment Movie Music Recognition Stuff Whether Works You I Love

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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

~Barbara Mandrell

Topics: Acts Before Book Female First Girl Had Joke Like Little Little Girl Male More Opening Our Own Pretty Singers Standing Were Where Would

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